The Greek key protein apo-pseudoazurin folds through an obligate on-pathway intermediate

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1621-1632

  Capaldi, Andrew P ^a   Ferguson, Stuart J ^b   Radford, Sheena E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Folding intermediate; Greek key; On pathway; Proline isomerism; Pseudoazurin

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; AZURIN; PROLINE; PSEUDOPEPTIDE; SODIUM SULFATE; UREA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CIS ISOMER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; TRANS ISOMER;

EID: 0033548458     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2588     Document Type: Article

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