Probing the kinetic cooperativity of β-sheet folding perpendicular to the strand direction

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2064-2070

  Xu, Yao ^a   Bunagan, Michelle R ^a   Tang, Jia ^a   Gai, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BARRIERS; FREE ENERGY; MELTING POINT; REACTION KINETICS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

RELAXATION KINETICS; THERMAL MELTING TEMPERATURE;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; DYNAMICS; KINETICS; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 39649104098     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi702195c     Document Type: Article

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