Probing the partly folded states of proteins by limited proteolysis

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Fontana, Angelo ^a   De Laureto, Patrizia Polverino ^a   De Filippis, Vincenzo ^a   Scaramella, Elena ^a   Zambonin, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOMYOGLOBIN; APOPROTEIN; LACTALBUMIN; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

APOPROTEINS; BIOCHEMISTRY; ENDOPEPTIDASES; LACTALBUMIN; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 0030623527     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00010-2     Document Type: Review

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