Insights into protein folding mechanisms from large scale analysis of mutational effects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8611-8616

  Naganathana, Athi N ^a,b   Muñoza, Victor ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy relationships; Kinetics; Mutations; Perturbation analysis; Phi values

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 77952730001     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000988107     Document Type: Article

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