Parallel pathways in the folding of a short-term denatured scFv fragment of an antibody

Folding and Design

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-49

  Freund, Christian ^a,d   Gehrig, Peter ^a   Baici, Antonio ^b   Holak, Tad A ^c   Plückthun, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass spectrometry; NMR; Proline cis trans isomerization; Proton exchange; Single chain Fv fragment

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHILIN; GUANIDINE; PROLINE; PROTON;

ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; ISOMERISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031933290     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(98)00007-8     Document Type: Article

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