Experimental support for the evolution of symmetric protein architecture from a simple peptide motif

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

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 126-130

  Lee, Jihun ^a   Blaber, Michael ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein design; Protein folding; Protein symmetry

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

LOTUS;

EID: 78651068037     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015032108     Document Type: Article

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