Evidence for a three-state model of protein folding from kinetic analysis of ubiquitin variants with altered core residues

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 193-205

  Khorasanizadeh, Sepideh ^a,b   Peters, Lain D ^a,c   Roder, Heinrich ^a,b  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HAWAII BIOTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY;

HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; UBIQUITINS; VALINE;

EID: 0030057477     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0296-193     Document Type: Article

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