Coulomb Forces Control the Density of the Collapsed Unfolded State of Barstar

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 376, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 597-605

  Hofmann, Hagen ^a   Golbik, Ralph P ^a   Ott, Maria ^b   Hübner, Christian G ^c   Ulbrich Hofmann, Renate ^a  

^a Junior Research Group Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

barstar; collapse; protein folding; single molecule fluorescence

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BARSTAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 38349122467     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.11.083     Document Type: Article

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