Using chimeric immunity proteins to explore the energy landscape for α-helical protein folding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 307, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 393-405

  Ferguson, Neil ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Capaldi, Andrew P ^a   Kleanthous, Colin ^b   Radford, Sheena E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimera; Intermediate; Sequence; Topology; Transition state

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN IM2; PROTEIN IM9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENERGY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0035896036     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4492     Document Type: Article

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