Engineering protein stability with atomic precision in a monomeric miniprotein

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 764-770

  Baker, Emily G ^a   Williams, Christopher ^a,b   Hudson, Kieran L ^a,c   Bartlett, Gail J ^a   Heal, Jack W ^a   Goff, Kathryn L Porter ^a   Sessions, Richard B ^a,b   Crump, Matthew P ^a,b   Woolfson, Derek N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Tankard's Close   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL GROUP; MONOMER; PHENYLALANINE; POLYPROLINE; PROLINE DIPEPTIDASE; PROTEIN SH3; PROTON; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; PEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SYNTHESIS;

PEPTIDES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85021143420     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2380     Document Type: Article

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