Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy maps the folding landscape of a large protein

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Pirchi, Menahem ^a   Ziv, Guy ^a   Riven, Inbal ^a   Cohen, Sharona Sedghani ^a   Zohar, Nir ^a   Barak, Yoav ^b   Haran, Gilad ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HISTOGRAM; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; MARKOV CHAINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 80055033153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1504     Document Type: Article

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