High populations of non-native structures in the denatured state are compatible with the formation of the native folded state

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1153-1164

  Blanco, Francisco J ^a,c   Serrano, Luis ^a   Forman Kay, Julie D ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Denatured state; Helix; NMR; Secondary structure; sheet

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 0032509152     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2229     Document Type: Article

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