The dimeric DNA binding domain of the human papillomavirus E2 protein folds through a monomeric intermediate which cannot be native-like

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 711-717

  Mok, Yu Keung ^a   Bycroft, Mark ^a   De Prat Gay, Gonzalo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; MONOMER; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS; WART VIRUS;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, VIRAL; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029761636     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0896-711     Document Type: Article

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