Characterisation of urea-denatured states of an immunoglobulin superfamily domain by heteronuclear NMR

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 278, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 417-429

  Fong, Sun ^a   Bycroft, Mark ^a   Clarke, Jane ^a   Freund, Stefan M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backbone dynamics; I set; Protein folding; Residual structure; sheet protein

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; UREA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032079638     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1702     Document Type: Article

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