Single-molecule fluorescence reveals sequence-specific misfolding in multidomain proteins

Nature

Volumn 474, Issue 7353, 2011, Pages 662-665

  Borgia, Madeleine B ^a,b   Borgia, Alessandro ^b   Best, Robert B ^a   Steward, Annette ^a   Nettels, Daniel ^b   Wunderlich, Bengt ^b   Schuler, Benjamin ^b   Clarke, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN;

EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MULTIDOMAIN PROTEIN MISFOLDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79959830883     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10099     Document Type: Article

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