A study on the effect of surface lysine to arginine mutagenesis on protein stability and structure using green fluorescent protein

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Sokalingam, Sriram ^a   Raghunathan, Govindan ^a   Soundrarajan, Nagasundarapandian ^a   Lee, Sun Gu ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DETERGENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANIDINE; LYSINE;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYDROGEN BOND; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARGININE; DETERGENTS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HALF-LIFE; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; UREA;

EID: 84863610879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040410     Document Type: Article

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