A partially folded intermediate species of the β-sheet protein apo-pseudoazurin is trapped during proline-limited folding

Protein Science

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1216-1224

  Reader, John S ^a,d   Van Nuland, Nico A J ^b,e   Thompson, Gary S ^a   Ferguson, Stuart J ^c   Dobson, Christopher M ^b   Radford, Sheena E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

sheet; Proline isomerization; Protein folding; Pseudoazurin

Indexed keywords

AZURIN; PROLINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPIN TRAPPING;

ANILINO NAPHTHALENESULFONATES; AZURIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYCLOPHILIN A; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROLINE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SODIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; TIME FACTORS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; UREA;

EID: 0035019855     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.52801     Document Type: Article

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