Determination of ultrafast protein folding rates from loop formation dynamics

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 347, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 657-664

  Buscaglia, Marco ^a   Kubelka, Jan ^a   Eaton, William A ^a   Hofrichter, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact rate; Protein folding; Triplet state quenching; Unfolded state; Villin headpiece subdomain

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; METHIONINE; TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE; VILLIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; KINETICS; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 14744302714     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.01.057     Document Type: Article

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