Independent nucleation and heterogeneous assembly of structure during folding of equine lysozyme

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 289, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1055-1073

  Morozova Roche, Ludmilla A ^a   Jones, Jonathan A ^a,b   Noppe, Wim ^c   Dobson, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Hydrogen exchange; Intermediate state; Protein folding; Stretched exponential

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HORSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0032981136     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2741     Document Type: Article

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