A critical assessment of putative gatekeeper interactions in the villin headpiece helical subdomain

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 401, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 274-285

  Xiao, Shifeng ^a   Raleigh, Daniel P ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatic proline interactions; Gatekeeper residues; Protein folding; Protein stability; Villin headpiece helical subdomain

Indexed keywords

HELICAL SUBDOMAIN OF THE VILLIN HEADPIECE; PROLINE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VILLIN;

ARTICLE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN VARIANT;

PYRONIA TITHONUS;

EID: 77955086140     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.05.070     Document Type: Article

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