Shifting hydrogen bonds may produce flexible transmembrane helices

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

Volumn 109, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 8121-8126

  Cao, Zheng ^a   Bowie, James U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinks; Proline; Protein dynamics; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; ENERGY COST; HYDROGEN BOND; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIORHODOPSINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HALOBACTERIUM; HYDROGEN BONDING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; PROLINE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84861434240     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201298109     Document Type: Article

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