Rheostats and toggle switches for modulating protein function

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Meinhardt, Sarah ^a,b   Manley Jr , Michael W ^a   Parente, Daniel J ^a   Swint Kruse, Liskin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Saint Luke's Health System Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LAC REPRESSORS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84893564006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083502     Document Type: Article

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