Folding Kinetics of Staphylococcal Nuclease Studied by Tryptophan Engineering and Rapid Mixing Methods

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 244-255

  Maki, Kosuke ^a   Cheng, Hong ^a   Dolgikh, Dimitry A ^a,b   Roder, Heinrich ^a,c  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

circular dichroism; continuous flow; fluorescence; protein folding; stopped flow

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE; SOLVENT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 33947327195     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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