Reversible thermal denaturation of a 60-kDa genetically engineered β-sheet polypeptide

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3805-3818

  Lednev, Igor K ^a   Ermolenkov, Vladimir V ^a,b   Higashiya, Seiichiro ^a   Popova, Ludmila A ^a   Topilina, Natalya I ^a   Welch, John T ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; POLYPEPTIDE; POLYPROLINE 2; PROLINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN YEHK21; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 33751213891     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.082792     Document Type: Article

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