The folding kinetics of the SDS-induced molten globule form of reduced cytochrome c

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5450-5459

  Chen, Eefei ^a   Van Vranken, Vanessa ^a,b   Kliger, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRAPOLATION; PHASE STRUCTURE; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

FRACTIONAL POPULATION; OBLIGATORY INTERMEDIATE; PHOTOREDUCTION; TWO STATE PROCESSES;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

CYTOCHROME C; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; OXIDATION; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REACTION TIME; REDUCTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TITRIMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOCHROMES C; HORSES; KINETICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 43249087866     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi702452u     Document Type: Article

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