Global hairpin folding of tau in solution

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2283-2293

  Jeganathan, Sadasivam ^a   Von Bergen, Martin ^a   Brutlach, Henrik ^b   Steinhoff, Heinz Jürgen ^b   Mandelkow, Eckhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK UNIT FOR STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MUTAGENESIS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROXIMITY INDICATORS;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER (FRET); INTRAMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MICROTUBULES; TRYPTOPHANS (DONOR);

PROTEINS;

CYSTEINE; GUANIDINE HYDROCHLORIDE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NAPHTHALENESULFONATES; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLUTIONS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 33144463940     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0521543     Document Type: Article

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