Packing interactions in the apomyglobin folding intermediate

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 439-445

  Kay, Michael S ^a   Baldwin, Robert L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; MYOGLOBIN; UREA;

ALPHA HELIX; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; WHALE;

ACIDS; APOPROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTATION; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; UREA;

CETACEA; PHYSETER CATODON;

EID: 0029981924     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0596-439     Document Type: Review

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