Rapid formation of a molten globule intermediate in refolding of α-lactalbumin

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 275-287

  Arai, Munehito ^a   Kuwajima, Kunihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Folding pathway; Hydrophobic interaction; Molten globule; Protein folding; lactalbumin

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINE; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; LACTALBUMIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYDROGEN BOND; KINETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GUANIDINE; GUANIDINES; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; LACTALBUMIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0030348041     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00041-7     Document Type: Article

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