Conformational transitions provoked by organic solvents in β-lactoglobulin: Can a molten globule like intermediate be induced by the decrease in dielectric constant?

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 163-172

  Uversky, Vladimir N ^a   Narizhneva, Natalya V ^a   Kirschstein, Steffen Omar ^b   Winter, Stefan ^b   Löber, Günter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

8 ANS; Intermediate states; Molten globule; Organic solvents; Protein folding; Time resolved fluorescence

Indexed keywords

8 ANILINO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID; FLUORESCENT DYE; LACTOGLOBULIN; METHANOL; SOLVENT; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ANILINO NAPHTHALENESULFONATES; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; LACTOGLOBULINS; METHANOL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0030623382     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00023-0     Document Type: Article

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