Energetically significant networks of coupled interactions within an unfolded protein

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

Volumn 111, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 12079-12084

  Cho, Jae Hyun ^a   Meng, Wenli ^b   Sato, Satoshi ^b   Kim, Eun Young ^b   Schindelin, Hermann ^c   Raleigh, Daniel P ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Double mutant cycle; Protein folding; Protein stability; value analysis

Indexed keywords

GLOBULAR PROTEIN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L9; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MUTANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

DOUBLE-MUTANT CYCLE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; Φ-VALUE ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84906311191     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402054111     Document Type: Article

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