Folding and assembly of an antibody Fv fragment, a heterodimer stabilized by antigen

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2005-2019

  Jäger, Marcus ^a   Plückthun, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibody fragments; Multidomain proteins; Off pathway intermediates; Proline cis trans isomerization; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

8 ANILINO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENT; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PROLINE;

ARTICLE; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 0039154091     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2425     Document Type: Article

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