Improving the resistance of a eukaryotic β-barrel protein to thermal and chemical perturbations

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 413, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-161

  Gessmann, Dennis ^a   Mager, Frauke ^a,b   Naveed, Hammad ^c   Arnold, Thomas ^b   Weirich, Sara ^a   Linke, Dirk ^b   Liang, Jie ^c   Nussberger, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

apparent protein stability; protein engineering; TOM complex; Tom40; barrel

Indexed keywords

BETA BARREL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; TOM40A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80053324844     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.07.054     Document Type: Article

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