A second look at mini-protein stability: Analysis of FSD-1 using circular dichroism, differential scanning calorimetry, and simulations

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2803-2810

  Feng, Jianwen A ^a   Kao, Jeff ^a   Marshall, Garland R ^a  

^a University in St Louis   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 72149105645     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.08.046     Document Type: Article

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