Biophysical investigations on the aggregation and thermal unfolding of harpinPss and identification of leucine-zipper-like motifs in harpins

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1794, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1684-1692

  Tarafdar, Pradip K ^a   Vedantam, Lakshmi Vasudev ^a   Kondreddy, Anil ^a   Podile, Appa Rao ^a   Swamy, Musti J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

helix; Circular dichroism; Differential scanning calorimetry; Dynamic light scattering; Thermal unfolding

Indexed keywords

DIMER; HARPIN DERIVATIVE; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BIOPHYSICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONGO RED; HOT TEMPERATURE; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. SYRINGAE;

EID: 70249144990     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2009.07.023     Document Type: Article

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