Direct evidence for a dry molten globule intermediate during the unfolding of a small protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 12289-12294

  Jha, Santosh Kumar ^a   Udgaonkar, Jayant B ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Continuous transition; Protein unfolding; Single chain monellin; Steady state FRET

Indexed keywords

8 ANILINO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID; GUANIDINE; MONELLIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STEADY STATE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 68149147539     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905744106     Document Type: Article

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