Searching for Multiple Folding Pathways of a Nearly Symmetrical Protein: Temperature Dependent Φ-Value Analysis of the B Domain of Protein A

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 372, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 254-267

  Sato, Satoshi ^a   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

folding pathway; kinetics; temperature jump; transition state; analysis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; KINETICS; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 34547651105     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.06.043     Document Type: Article

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