Structural dissection of alkaline-denatured pepsin

Protein Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 717-724

  Kamatari, Yuji O ^a,c   Dobson, Christopher M ^a,d   Konno, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denaturation; Limited proteolysis; Partially folded state; Pepsin; Zymogen

Indexed keywords

PEPSIN A;

ALKALINITY; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPSIN A; PROTEIN DENATURATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037378360     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0219903     Document Type: Article

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