Enhanced crystallizability by protein engineering approaches: A general overview

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 732-742

  Ruggiero, Alessia ^a   Smaldone, Giovanni ^a,b   Squeglia, Flavia ^a,b   Berisio, Rita ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics tools; Crystallization; Fusion protein; Protein engineering; Protein expression; Protein modification; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 84863769912     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986612800793172     Document Type: Review

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