Many faces of the unfolded state: Conformational heterogeneity in denatured yeast cytochrome c

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 345, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 855-867

  Pletneva, Ekaterina V ^a   Gray, Harry B ^a   Winkler, Jay R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

cytochrome c; fluorescence energy transfer; heterogeneity; random coil; unfolded state

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; DANSYL CHLORIDE; GUANIDINE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; COVALENT BOND; DERIVATIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT;

EID: 10044269982     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.10.085     Document Type: Article

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