Robustness of downhill folding: Guidelines for the analysis of equilibrium folding experiments on small proteins

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7435-7449

  Naganathan, Athi N ^a   Perez Jimenez, Raúl ^b   Sanchez Ruiz, Jose M ^b   Muñoz, Victor ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLATION; AGGLOMERATION; FLUORESCENCE; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMIDATION; DOWNHILL FOLDING; FAST-FOLDING PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DANSYL CHLORIDE; NAPHTHALENE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BBL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; AMIDATION; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN VARIANT; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; KETOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS; UREA;

EID: 18844421130     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi050118y     Document Type: Article

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