Cytochrome c folds through a smooth funnel

Protein Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 536-543

  Panda, Markandeswar ^a   Benavides Garcia, Maria G ^a   Pierce, Michael M ^a   Nall, Barry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c; Fast folding; Folding landscape; Heme ligands; His; Iso 2; Kinetic traps; Nonnative; Temperature jump

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME KINETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; YEAST;

MUS;

EID: 0034119574     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.3.536     Document Type: Article

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