Protein folding absent selection

Genes

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 608-626

  LaBean, Thomas H ^a   Butt, Tauseef R ^b   Kauffman, Stuart A ^c   Schultes, Erik A ^a  

^a Sequenomics LLC   (United States)

^b LifeSensors Inc   (United States)

^c University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Protein folding; Sequence space

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SEQUENCE SPACE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053213284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes2030608     Document Type: Article

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