Kinetic intermediates in the formation of the cytochrome c molten globule

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1019-1025

  Colón, Wilfredo ^a   Roder, Heinrich ^a,b  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; CYTOCHROME C; GLOBULAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; HEAT; HORSES; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 0030473296     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1296-1019     Document Type: Article

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