Role of trehalose and heat in the structure of the C-terminal activation domain of the heat shock transcription factor

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 826-835

  Bulman, Amanda L ^a,b   Nelson, Hillary C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CIPHERGEN BIOSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Fluorescence emission spectroscopy; Helicity; Osmolyte; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DISACCHARIDE; HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; PROTEINASE; SUCROSE; TREHALOSE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT; HEAT SHOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TREHALOSE;

EID: 13944259772     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20371     Document Type: Article

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