Trade-off between positive and negative design of protein stability: from lattice models to real proteins.

Two different strategies for stabilizing proteins are (i) positive design in which the native state is stabilized and (ii) negative design in which competing non-native conformations are destabilized. Here, the circumstances under which one strategy might be favored over the other are explored in th...

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Main Authors: Orly Noivirt-Brik, Amnon Horovitz, Ron Unger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2781108?pdf=render