Protein rigidity and thermophilic adaptation

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1089-1108

  Radestock, Sebastian ^a,b   Gohlke, Holger ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enzyme activity; Flexibility; Network; Protein engineering; Rigidity theory; Thermostability

Indexed keywords

3 ISOPROPYLMALATE DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PROTEINASE; THERMOLYSIN LIKE PROTEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RIGIDITY; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIGIDITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDRO-LYASES; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 79952487469     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22946     Document Type: Article

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