De novo protein design: How do we expand into the universe of possible protein structures?

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-26

  Woolfson, Derek N ^a,b   Bartlett, Gail J ^a   Burton, Antony J ^a   Heal, Jack W ^a   Niitsu, Ai ^a   Thomson, Andrew R ^a   Wood, Christopher W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Life Sciences Building   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PIZZA2; PROTEIN PIZZA3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84934964499     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.05.009     Document Type: Review

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