Cooperative formation of native-like tertiary contacts in the ensemble of unfolded states of a four-helix protein

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

Volumn 107, Issue 30, 2010, Pages 13306-13311

  Bruun, Susanne W ^a   Iešmantavičius, Vytautas ^a   Danielsson, Jens ^a   Poulsen, Flemming M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Protein folding; Transient structure formation

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HYDROGEN; DIAZEPAM BINDING INHIBITOR; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PH; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DIAZEPAM BINDING INHIBITOR; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 77955839695     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003004107     Document Type: Article

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