Slow motion analysis of protein folding intermediates within wet silica gels

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5784-5794

  Shibayama, Naoya ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; SILICA GEL; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

SLOW MOTION ANALYSIS; WET SILICA GELS;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

CYTOCHROME C; SILICA GEL; TRYPTOPHAN; UBIQUITIN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; WETTABILITY;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOCHROMES C; GELS; HORSES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 44349151939     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi8003582     Document Type: Article

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