Mutagenic dissection of the sequence determinants of protein folding, recognition, and machine function

Protein Science

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1675-1687

  Sauer, Robert T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc repressor; ATPdependent unfolding; ClpXP; Intracellular degradation; Lambda repressor; TmRNA tagging

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CONNECTIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DENATURATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ARC REPRESSOR; ATP-DEPENDENT UNFOLDING; CLPXP; INTRACELLULAR DEGRADATION; LAMBDA REPRESSOR; TMRNA TAGGING;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84890167966     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.2334     Document Type: Article

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