Direct evidence by H/D exchange and ESI-MS for transient unproductive domain interaction in the refolding of an antibody scFv fragment

Protein Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 552-563

  Jäger, Marcus ^a   Plückthun, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibody fragments; Folding intermediates; H D exchange; Mass spectrometry; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0342264617     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.3.552     Document Type: Article

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