The disulfide-coupled folding pathway of apamin as derived from diselenide-quenched analogs and intermediates

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1605-1613

  Pegoraro, Stefano ^a   Fiori, Stella ^a   Cramer, Jörg ^a   Rudolph Böhner, Sabine ^a   Moroder, Luis ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apamin; Disulfide bridges; Folding; Secondary structure; Selenocysteine

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; DISULFIDE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SELENOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; ISOMERISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SYNTHESIS;

APOIDEA;

EID: 0032787875     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.8.1605     Document Type: Article

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