Diseño de hojas beta de una sola capa sin un núcleo hidrofóbico

S Koide1, X Huang, K Link

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642, USA. Shohei_Koide@urmc.rochester.edu

Nature
|February 10, 2000
PubMed
Resumen

El plegamiento de las proteínas puede ocurrir sin un núcleo hidrofóbico. Las hojas beta diseñadas en la proteína de superficie externa A (OspA) demuestran estabilidad a través de interacciones internas, expandiendo las opiniones sobre el diseño de la proteína.

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