Molecular collapse: The rate-limiting step in two-state cytochrome c folding

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 413-426

  Sosnick, Tobin R ^a   Mayne, Leland ^a   Englander, S Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

folding barriers; folding kinetics; protein folding

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DENATURATION; DISSOCIATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS;

CYTOCHROME C GROUP; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR PROBES; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029940033     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199604)24:4<413::AID-PROT1>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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