Thermal unfolding simulations of bacterial flagellin: Insight into its refolding before assembly

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3858-3871

  Chng, Choon Peng ^a   Kitao, Akio ^b,c  

^a Graduate School of Frontier Sciences   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLAGELLUM; MOTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 43849090358     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.123927     Document Type: Article

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