Pathway of oxidative folding of bovine α-interferon: Predominance of native disulfide-bonded folding intermediates

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3925-3932

  Lin, Curtis C J ^a   Chang, Jui Yoa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ISOMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION; POLYPEPTIDES;

DISULFIDE-BONDED FOLDING INTERMEDIATES; HELICAL STRUCTURE;

PROTEINS;

ALPHA INTERFERON; AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; COW; DISULFIDE BOND; ISOMER; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISULFIDES; INTERFERON-ALPHA; ISOMERISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

BOVINAE;

EID: 33947704135     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0623126     Document Type: Article

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