The denatured state of Engrailed Homeodomain under denaturing and native conditions

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 333, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 977-991

  Mayor, Ugo ^a   Grossmann, J Günter ^b   Foster, Nicholas W ^a,c   Freund, Stefan M V ^a   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c Inpharmatica Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Denatured state; Differential scanning calorimetry; NMR; X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

ENGRAILED HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DENATURATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0142185492     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.08.062     Document Type: Article

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