Effective interactions between chaotropic agents and proteins

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 492-499

  Salvi, Giovanni ^a   De Los Rios, Paolo ^b   Vendruscolo, Michele ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydrophobicity; Protein stability; Solvent accessible surface area; Urea denaturation

Indexed keywords

CHAOTROPIC AGENT; PROTEIN; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DENATURATION; GENE DISRUPTION; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ENTROPY; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEINS; WATER;

EID: 27544449360     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20626     Document Type: Article

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