Obligatory steps in protein folding and the conformational diversity of the transition state

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 721-729

  Martinez, Jose C ^a,b   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FODRIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENZYME KINETICS; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ACID; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTRIN; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS;

EID: 0031825181     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1418     Document Type: Article

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