Downhill versus Barrier-Limited Folding of BBL. 3. Heterogeneity of the Native State of the BBL Peripheral Subunit Binding Domain and Its Implications for Folding Mechanisms

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 387, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 993-1001

  Settanni, Giovanni ^a   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conformational heterogeneity; downhill; protein folding; simulation

Indexed keywords

BBL 3 PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALORIMETRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 62649107589     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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