Chapter 1 Practical Approaches to Protein Folding and Assembly. Spectroscopic Strategies in Thermodynamics and Kinetics

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 455, Issue A, 2009, Pages 1-39

  Walters, Jad ^a   Milam, Sara L ^a   Clark, A Clay ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDE; BUFFER; DITHIOTHREITOL; GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; HETERODIMER; HOMODIMER; MONOMER; PROCASPASE 3; PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UREA;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; DISSOCIATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTUM YIELD; REVIEW; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

KINETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 61849169556     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)04201-8     Document Type: Review

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