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Wayne State University

Bioinformatics

Molecular Biology

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Disulfide By Design 2.0: A Web-Based Tool For Disulfide Engineering In Proteins, Douglas B. Craig, Alan A. Dombkowski Jan 2013

Disulfide By Design 2.0: A Web-Based Tool For Disulfide Engineering In Proteins, Douglas B. Craig, Alan A. Dombkowski

Wayne State University Associated BioMed Central Scholarship

Abstract

Background

Disulfide engineering is an important biotechnological tool that has advanced a wide range of research. The introduction of novel disulfide bonds into proteins has been used extensively to improve protein stability, modify functional characteristics, and to assist in the study of protein dynamics. Successful use of this technology is greatly enhanced by software that can predict pairs of residues that will likely form a disulfide bond if mutated to cysteines.

Results

We had previously developed and distributed software for this purpose: Disulfide by Design (DbD). The original DbD program has been widely used; however, it has a number …