Correlation between Protein Stability Cores and Protein Folding Kinetics: A Case Study on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Apo-Azurin

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1401-1410

  Chen, Mingzhi ^a   Wilson, Corey J ^b   Wu, Yinghao ^c   Wittung Stafshede, Pernilla ^b   Ma, Jianpeng ^a,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZURIN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYDROGEN BOND; KINETICS; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPECTROMETRY;

APOPROTEINS; AZURIN; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33748335624     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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