Snapshots of a dynamic folding nucleus in zinc-substituted Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 10054-10062

  Wilson, Corey J ^a   Wittung Stafshede, Pernilla ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS; ZINC;

FOLDING TRANSITION STATE; LIGANDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSITION STATE (TS);

REACTION KINETICS;

AZURIN; CYSTEINE; GUANIDINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; POLYPEPTIDE; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPROTEINS; AZURIN; GUANIDINE; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; THERMODYNAMICS; ZINC;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 23044514304     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi050342n     Document Type: Article

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