Characterisation of the Conformational Properties of Urea-unfolded Im7: Implications for the Early Stages of Protein Folding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 364, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 824-835

  Le Duff, Cécile S ^a   Whittaker, Sara B M ^a   Radford, Sheena E ^b   Moore, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Im7; NMR; protein folding; unfolded proteins; urea

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; IM7 PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 33750962168     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.09.037     Document Type: Article

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