Peptide fragment studies on the folding elements of dihydrofolate reductase from Escherichia coli

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 399-410

  Arai, Munehito ^a   Iwakura, Masahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomous folding unit; Circular dichroism; Foldability; Helical propensity; Molecular dynamics simulation; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 30144440199     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20675     Document Type: Article

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