Measuring "Unmeasurable" folding kinetics of proteins by single-molecule force spectroscopy

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 402, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 610-617

  Jollymore, Ashlee ^a   Li, Hongbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Folding kinetics; Irreversible denaturation; Protein folding; Single molecule force spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CIRCULANS; KINETICS; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

BACILLUS CIRCULANS;

EID: 77956893949     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.07.059     Document Type: Article

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