Using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to study conformational changes in denatured proteins

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4819-4827

  Sherman, Eilon ^a   Itkin, Anna ^a   Kuttner, Yosef Yehuda ^a,c   Rhoades, Elizabeth ^a,d   Amir, Dan ^b   Haas, Elisha ^b   Haran, Gilad ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 45849102391     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.120220     Document Type: Article

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