Unifying mechanical and thermodynamic descriptions across the thioredoxin protein family

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 610-627

  Mottonen, James M ^a   Xu, Minli ^b   Jacobs, Donald J ^a   Livesay, Dennis R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy landscape; Hydrogen bond network; Molecular cooperativity; Quantified stability flexibility relationships; Rigidity; Thioredoxin

Indexed keywords

THIOREDOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACKBONE FLEXIBILITY; CALCULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; COOPERATIVITY CORRELATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISTANCE CONSTRAINT MODEL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENTROPY; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE STABILITY FLEXIBILITY RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THERMODYNAMICS; THIOREDOXINS;

EID: 66149154705     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22273     Document Type: Article

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