Folding pathways of proteins with increasing degree of sequence identities but different structure and function

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

Volumn 109, Issue 44, 2012, Pages 17772-17776

  Giri, Rajanish ^a   Morrone, Angela ^a   Travaglini Allocatelli, Carlo ^a   Jemth, Per ^b   Brunori, Maurizio ^a   Gianni, Stefano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Protein engineering; Protein folding; Protein G

Indexed keywords

SUBTILISIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84868122220     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201794109     Document Type: Article

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