The effect of triple glutamic mutations E9Q/E194Q/E204Q on the structural stability of bacteriorhodopsin

FEBS Journal

Volumn 281, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1181-1195

  Lazarova, Tzvetana ^a   Mlynarczyk, Krzysztof ^b   Filipek, Slawomir ^b   Kolinski, Michal ^c   Wassenaar, Tsjerk A ^d   Querol, Enric ^a   Renugopalakrishnan, Venkatesan ^e,f   Viswanathan, Sowmya ^g   Padrós, Esteve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

conformational changes; hydrogen bonding; molecular dynamics; thermal difference spectra; thermal stability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; GLUTAMINE;

CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION;

BACTERIORHODOPSINS; GLUTAMINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION;

EID: 84894253865     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12694     Document Type: Article

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