Increasing Stability Reduces Conformational Heterogeneity in a Protein Folding Intermediate Ensemble

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 337, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 699-711

  Sridevi, K ^a   Lakshmikanth, G S ^b   Krishnamoorthy, G ^b   Udgaonkar, Jayant B ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Barstar; Conformational heterogeneity; FRET, fluorescence resonance energy transfer; MEM, maximum entropy method; Multi site FRET; N, native; Protein folding; Time resolved fluorescence; TNB, thionitrobenzoate; TRFRET, time resolved FRET; U, unfolded

Indexed keywords

BARSTAR;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542358783     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.12.083     Document Type: Article

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