New structural insights into the refolding of ribonuclease T1 as seen by time-resolved fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 303-316

  Reinstädler, Diane ^a   Fabian, Heinz ^b   Naumann, Dieter ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Folding kinetics; Prolyl peptide bond isomerization; Protein folding; Temperature jump; Time resolved Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; W59Y RNase T1

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE;

ISOMERISM; PROLINE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE T1; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0142037152     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19990215)34:3<303::AID-PROT4>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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