Formation of Cystine Slipknots in Dimeric Proteins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Sikora, Mateusz ^a   Cieplak, Marek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; CYSTINE; DIMER; GLYCOPROTEIN; KNOTTIN; MONOMER; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84874786719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057443     Document Type: Article

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