Structure and folding of a designed knotted protein

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

Volumn 107, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 20732-20737

  King, Neil P ^a   Jacobitz, Alex W ^a   Sawaya, Michael R ^a   Goldschmidt, Lukasz ^a   Yeates, Todd O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anfinsen; Energy landscape; Folding kinetics; Protein folding; Topology

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 78650549526     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007602107     Document Type: Article

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