Paramagnetic relaxation enhancements in unfolded proteins: Theory and application to drkN SH3 domain

Protein Science

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1401-1424

  Xue, Yi ^a   Podkorytov, Ivan S ^a   Rao, D Krishna ^a   Benjamin, Nathan ^a   Sun, Honglei ^a   Skrynnikov, Nikolai R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

drkN SH3; Molecular dynamics; Paramagnetic relaxation enhancement; Segmental diffusion; Site directed spin labeling; Smoluchowski equation; Translational relaxation; Ubiquitin; Unfolded proteins

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GUANIDINE; PROTEIN SH3;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTATION; GILLESPIE SHORTLE MODEL; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PARAMAGNETIC RELAXATION ENHANCEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; UNFOLDED PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; UBIQUITIN; VIBRATION;

EID: 67650072494     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.153     Document Type: Article

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