Evidence of a thermal unfolding dimeric intermediate for the Escherichia coli histone-like HU proteins: Thermodynamics and structure

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 331, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-121

  Ramstein, Jean ^a   Hervouet, Nadège ^a   Coste, Franck ^a   Zelwer, Charles ^a   Oberto, Jacques ^b   Castaing, Bertrand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

DSC; Histone like; HU; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; HISTONE; MONOMER; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTUM YIELD; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0037823447     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00725-3     Document Type: Article

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