Folding of cytochrome c initiated by submillisecond mixing

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 44-50

  Takahashi, Satoshi ^a,d   Yeh, Syun Ru ^b   Das, Tapan K ^b   Chan, Chi Kin ^c   Gottfried, David S ^b   Rousseau, Denis L ^b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; HEME; HISTIDINE; METHIONINE;

ARTICLE; HORSE; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STEADY STATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; HORSES; KINETICS; MYOCARDIUM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EQUUS CABALLUS; MUS;

EID: 0031026206     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0197-44     Document Type: Article

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