The Folding Mechanism of BBL: Plasticity of Transition-State Structure Observed within an Ultrafast Folding Protein Family

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 390, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1060-1073

  Neuweiler, Hannes ^a,b   Sharpe, Timothy D ^a,b   Rutherford, Trevor J ^a,b   Johnson, Christopher M ^a,b   Allen, Mark D ^a,b   Ferguson, Neil ^a,b   Fersht, Alan R ^a,b  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

peripheral subunit binding domain family; temperature jump fluorescence spectroscopy; transition state movement; ultrafast protein folding; value analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BBL; PROTEIN E3BD; PROTEIN POB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649881116     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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