Apoflavodoxin (un)folding followed at the residue level by NMR

Protein Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 145-157

  Van Mierlo, Carlo P M ^a   Van Den Oever, Jos M P ^a   Steensma, Elles ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apoflavodoxin; Cooperative and noncooperative unfolding; Equilibrium (un)folding; Guanidinium hydrochloride; Molten globule; NMR; Protein aggregation; Residue level

Indexed keywords

FLAVODOXIN;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033980811     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.1.145     Document Type: Article

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