Oxidative folding pathway of onconase, a ribonuclease homologue: Insight into oxidative folding mechanisms from a study of two homologues

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2740-2751

  Gahl, Robert F ^a   Scheraga, Harold A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCES; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURES; EFFICIENT INTERACTIONS; FOLDING MECHANISMS; HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTIONS; INTER-RESIDUE INTERACTIONS; ONCONASE; OXIDATIVE FOLDING; RNASE A; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGIES; THERMODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS;

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; ENZYMES; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC ACIDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

ISOLEUCINE; RANPIRNASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE FOLDING PATHWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

KINETICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; RIBONUCLEASES;

EID: 65349144186     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi802327j     Document Type: Article

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