Protein folding intermediates and pathways studied by hydrogen exchange

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 29, Issue , 2000, Pages 213-238

  Englander, S Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogen exchange; Intermediates; Kinetic barriers; Pathways; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GUANIDINE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033871781     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.29.1.213     Document Type: Review

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