Alternative models for describing the acid unfolding of the apomyoglobin folding intermediate

Biochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 7859-7868

  Kay, Michael S ^a   Baldwin, Robert L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOMYOGLOBIN; MYOGLOBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; TITRIMETRY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0032568639     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi9802061     Document Type: Article

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