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Hydrophobic Characteristic Is Energetically Preferred for Cysteine in a Model Membrane Protein

The naturally occurring amino acid cysteine has often been implicated with a crucial role in maintaining protein structure and stability. An intriguing duality in the intrinsic hydrophobicity of the cysteine side chain is that it exhibits both polar as well as hydrophobic characteristics. Here, we h...

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Autores principales: Iyer, Bharat Ramasubramanian, Mahalakshmi, Radhakrishnan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Biophysical Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626846/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31221440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.05.024