Stability and Folding Kinetics of a Ubiquitin Mutant with a Strong Propensity for Nonnative β-Hairpin Conformation in the Unfolded State

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 46, 2003, Pages 13762-13771

  Platt, Geoffrey W ^a   Simpson, Stephen A ^a   Layfield, Robert ^a   Searle, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PROTEINS;

COSOLVENTS; MUTANTS;

YEAST;

MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; UBIQUITIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; FLUOROCARBONS; GUANIDINE; KINETICS; METHANOL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN; UBIQUITIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0345708444     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi030147d     Document Type: Article

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