Direct observation of barrier-limited folding of BBL by single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer

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

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 16239-16244

  Huang, Fang ^a   Ying, Liming ^b   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Downhill; Protein A

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLEACHING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NOISE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349524994     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909126106     Document Type: Article

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