Native Escherichia coli and murine dihydrofolate reductases contain late-folding non-native structures

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1765-1776

  Clark, A Clay ^a   Frieden, Carl ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational heterogeneity; DHFR; Equilibrium folding unfolding; Kinetics; Stopped flow fluorescence

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE;

EID: 0033613814     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2402     Document Type: Article

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