Electrostatic Interactions in the Denatured State and in the Transition State for Protein Folding: Effects of Denatured State Interactions on the Analysis of Transition State Structure

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 359, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1437-1446

  Cho, Jae Hyun ^a   Raleigh, Daniel P ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

denatured state; protein folding; transition state; value analysis

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DENATURATION; ELECTRICITY; PH; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 33745122980     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.04.038     Document Type: Article

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