Rapid collapse and slow structural reorganisation during the refolding of bovine α-lactalbumin

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 673-688

  Forge, Vincent ^a   Wijesinha, Ramani T ^a   Balbach, Jochen ^a   Brew, Keith ^b   Robinson, Carol V ^a   Redfield, Christina ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD; Fluorescence; Protein folding; Real time NMR; lactalbumin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; CALCIUM ION; GUANIDINE; HYDROGEN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DISULFIDE BOND; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0033004311     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2687     Document Type: Article

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