Probing the folding pathway of a β-clam protein with single-tryptophan constructs

Folding and Design

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 401-412

  Clark, Patricia L ^a,b,c   Weston, Benjamin F ^a,d   Gierasch, Lila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Folding; Mutations; Tryptophan; sheet

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HYDROGEN; PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 0031784567     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(98)00053-4     Document Type: Article

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