Testing the relationship between foldability and the early folding events of dihydrofolate reductase from Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 328, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 273-288

  Arai, Munehito ^a   Maki, Kosuke ^a,b   Takahashi, Hisashi ^a   Iwakura, Masahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circular permutations; Dihydrofolate reductase; Foldability; Folding elements; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037453227     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00212-2     Document Type: Article

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