Mechanism of folding and assembly of a small tetrameric protein domain from tumor suppressor p53

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-198

  Mateu, Mauricio G ^a,b   Sánchez Del Pino, Manuel M ^a   Fersht, Alan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; PROTEIN P53; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BIOPOLYMERS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0032906377     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5880     Document Type: Article

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