A conserved threonine spring-loads precursor for intein splicing

Protein Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 557-563

  Dearden, Albert K ^a   Callahan, Brian ^b   Van Roey, Patrick ^c   Li, Zhong ^c   Kumar, Utsav ^a   Belfort, Marlene ^b   Nayak, Saroj K ^a,d  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR   (India)

Author keywords

Autocatalytic proteins; Crystal structure; First principles quantum mechanics; Intein; Reaction rate

Indexed keywords

EXTEIN; INTEIN; THREONINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HYDROGEN BOND; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84962383339     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.2236     Document Type: Article

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