Local interactions and the role of the 6-120 disulfide bond in α- lactalbumin: Implications for formation of the molten globule state

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1476, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-19

  Moriarty, Daniel F ^a   Demarest, Stephen J ^a   Robblee, James ^b   Fairman, Robert ^b   Raleigh, Daniel P ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactalbumin; Molten globule; Peptide model; Protein folding; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; DISULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DISULFIDE BOND; MELTING POINT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DISULFIDES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTALBUMIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0033987249     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(99)00219-8     Document Type: Article

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