Folding studies of immunoglobulin-like β-sandwich proteins suggest that they share a common folding pathway

Structure

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1145-1153

  Clarke, Jane ^a   Cota, Ernesto ^a   Fowler, Susan B ^a   Hamill, Stefan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fibronectin type III; Immunoglobulin; Protein folding; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033200251     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(99)80181-6     Document Type: Article

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