Acceleration of the folding of acylphosphatase by stabilization of local secondary structure

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 380-387

  Chiti, Fabrizio ^a   Taddei, Niccolo ^b   Webster, Paul ^a   Hamada, Daizo ^a   Fiaschi, Tania ^b   Ramponi, Giampietro ^b   Dobson, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLPHOSPHATASE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DENATURATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ACID ANHYDRIDE HYDROLASES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROPANOLS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TRIFLUOROETHANOL;

EID: 0032919144     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7616     Document Type: Article

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