Designing proteins from simple motifs: Opportunities in Top-Down Symmetric Deconstruction

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 442-450

  Blaber, Michael ^a,b   Lee, Jihun ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Celltrion Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; TREFOIL PEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DISULFIDE BOND; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84865279549     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.05.008     Document Type: Review

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