Solvent-tuning the collapse and helix formation time scales of λ6-85*

Protein Science

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2596-2604

  Dumont, Charles ^a   Matsumura, Yoshitaka ^b   Seung, Joong Kim ^a   Li, Jinsong ^b   Kondrashkina, Elena ^c,e   Kihara, Hiroshi ^b   Gruebele, Martin ^a,d  

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

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e Rigaku Innovative Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Collapse; Cryosolvent; Heterogeneous kinetics; Stopped flow

Indexed keywords

LAMBDA REPRESSOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STEADY STATE; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRAL PROTEINS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33751071378     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.062257406     Document Type: Article

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