Pressure-jump studies of the folding/unfolding of trp repressor

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 461-475

  Desai, Gayatri ^a   Panick, Gunda ^b   Zein, Marion ^b   Winter, Roland ^b   Royer, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activation volume; Fluorescence; FTIR; High pressure; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

8 ANILINO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANIDINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DISSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REPRESSOR GENE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ARRHENIUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033531967     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2692     Document Type: Article

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