Transient non-native secondary structures during the refolding of α- lactalbumin detected by infrared spectroscopy

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 78-86

  Troullier, Agnès ^a   Reinstädler, Diane ^b   Dupont, Yves ^a   Naumann, Dieter ^b   Forge, Vincent ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPROTEINS; CALCIUM; CATTLE; COLD; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LACTALBUMIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0342679998     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/71286     Document Type: Article

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