All-or-none solvent-induced transitions between native, molten globule and unfolded states in globular proteins

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-122

  Uversky, Vladimir N ^a   Ptitsyn, Oleg B ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Molten globule; Phase transitions; Protein denaturation; Protein unfolding

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINE; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN; SOLVENT; UREA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

GUANIDINE; GUANIDINES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; UREA;

EID: 0030347890     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00020-X     Document Type: Article

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