Identification of a conserved Hydrophobie cluster in partially folded bovine β-lactoglobulin at pH 2

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 281-290

  Ragona, Laura ^a   Pusterla, Francesca ^b   Zetta, Lucia ^c   Monaco, Hugo L ^a   Molinari, Henriette ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bovine lactoglobulin; Folding; Hydrophobic cluster; NMR; Structural alignment

Indexed keywords

LACTOGLOBULIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; LACTOGLOBULINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0030635208     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00039-4     Document Type: Article

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