Structural characterization of an equilibrium unfolding intermediate in cytochrome c

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 357, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1009-1025

  Latypov, Ramil F ^a,c   Cheng, Hong ^a   Roder, Navid A ^a   Zhang, Jiaru ^a   Roder, Heinrich ^a,b  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Denaturation; NMR; Protein folding; Spectroscopy; Stability

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; GUANIDINE HYDROCHLORIDE; METHIONINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; UREA;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; DENATURATION; HORSE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LIGATION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33644940724     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.01.055     Document Type: Article

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