Structure of the transition state in the folding process of human procarboxypeptidase A2 activation domain

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1027-1036

  Villegas, Virtudes ^a   Martínez, Jose C ^b,c   Avilés, Francesc X ^a   Serrano, Luis ^b  

^a Dept Bioquim I Inst Biol F ^*  (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Folding kinetics; Procarboxypeptidases; Protein engineering; Protein folding; Transition state

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME DENATURATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032515105     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2158     Document Type: Article

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