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Stereochemical criteria for prediction of the effects of proline mutations on protein stability.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Dec 2007
Bajaj Kanika, Madhusudhan M S, Adkar Bharat V, Chakrabarti Purbani, Ramakrishnan C, Sali Andrej, Varadarajan Raghavan
Abstract excerpt
When incorporated into a polypeptide chain, proline (Pro) differs from all other naturally occurring amino acid residues in two important respects. The phi dihedral angle of Pro is constrained to values close to -65 degrees and Pro lacks an amide hydrogen. Consequently, mutations which result in introduction of Pro can significantly affect protein stability. In the present work, we describe a procedure to...
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