Single-molecule FRET study of denaturant induced unfolding of RNase H

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 313-324

  Kuzmenkina, Elza V ^a   Heyes, Colin D ^a   Ulrich Nienhaus, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Guanidinium chloride; Protein folding; RNase H; Single molecule spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINE HYDROCHLORIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE H;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644767158     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.12.061     Document Type: Article

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