Probing the folding transition state of ubiquitin mutants by temperature-jump-induced downhill Unfolding

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 13870-13877

  Chung, Hoi Sung ^a   Shandiz, Ali ^b   Sosnick, Tobin R ^b   Tokmakoff, Andrei ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; FOLDING TRANSITION STATE; FREE ENERGY SURFACE; INTERMEDIATE STATE; NON-LINEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RAPID TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE JUMP; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT CHANGES; THERMAL UNFOLDING; THERMALLY ACTIVATED; TIME-RESOLVED; TRANSITION STATE; TRANSITION STATE ENSEMBLES; UBIQUITIN; UNFOLDING KINETICS; WILD TYPES;

FREE ENERGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

UBIQUITIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION;

KINETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 58849100500     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801603e     Document Type: Article

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