Salt-bridges can Stabilize but do not Accelerate the Folding of the Homodimeric Coiled-coil Peptide GCN4-p1

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 336, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 989-996

  Ibarra Molero, Beatriz ^a,b   Zitzewitz, Jill A ^a   Matthews, C Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism spectroscopy; Electrostatics; Ionic interactions; Leucine zipper peptides; Protein folding kinetics

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC SALT; ION; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN GCN4 P1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GCN4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MOLECULE; MUTANT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1242317050     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.12.069     Document Type: Article

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