Conservation of rapid two-state folding in mesophilic, thermophilic and hyperthermophilic cold shock proteins

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 229-235

  Perl, Dieter ^a   Welker, Christine ^b   Schindler, Thomas ^a   Schröder, Katja ^c   Marahiel, Mohamed A ^c   Jaenicke, Rainer ^b   Schmid, Franz X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; HEAT; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACILLUS CALDOLYTICUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0031890195     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0398-229     Document Type: Article

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