The Refolding and Reassembly of Escherichia Coli Heat-Labile Enterotoxin B-Subunit: Analysis of Reassembly-Competent and Reassembly-Incompetent Unfolded States

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1609-1617

  Cheesman, C ^a   Ruddock, L W ^a,b   Freedman, R B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOLOGY; MONOMERS; PH; PROTEINS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; REASSEMBLY BEHAVIOR;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

BUFFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN B; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; PEPTIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PYROPHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT TOLERANCE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BUFFERS; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHORIC ACIDS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN RENATURATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SALTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1042299982     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0354987     Document Type: Article

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