Facile chemical synthesis and equilibrium unfolding properties of CopG

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1918-1926

  Wales, Thomas E ^a   Richardson, Jane S ^b   Fitzgerald, Michael C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein design; Protein folding unfolding; Total chemical synthesis

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINE; PROTEIN COPG; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT RECOVERY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SOLID; SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; STREPTOCOCCUS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 3042630863     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.04671804     Document Type: Article

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