Malleability of folding intermediates in the homeodomain superfamily

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

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5596-5601

  Banachewicz, Wiktor ^a   Religa, Tomasz L ^a   Schaeffer, R D ^b   Daggett, Valerie ^b   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion collision; Protein folding; Temperature jump; Transition state

Indexed keywords

ENGRAILED HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

EID: 79955032444     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101752108     Document Type: Article

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