Solvation in protein (un)folding of melittin tetramer-monomer transition

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

Volumn 106, Issue 31, 2009, Pages 12593-12598

  Othon, Christina M ^a   Kwon, Oh Hoon ^a   Lin, Milo M ^a   Zewail, Ahmed H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluoresence spectroscopy; Preferential solvation; Protein folding; Ultrafast hydration

Indexed keywords

MELITTIN; MONOMER; SOLVENT; TETRAMER; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; BIOPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; DENATURATION; DYNAMICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLVATION; VISCOSITY; CHEMISTRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

BIOPOLYMERS; MELITTEN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 69149100640     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905967106     Document Type: Article

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