Secondary-structure analysis of alcohol-denatured proteins by vacuum-ultraviolet circular dichroism spectroscopy

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 281-293

  Matsuo, Koichi ^a   Sakurada, Yoshie ^a   Tate, Shin ichi ^a   Namatame, Hirofumi ^a   Taniguchi, Masaki ^a   Gekko, Kunihiko ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disulfide bond; Helix formation; Methanol; Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism; Trifluoroethanol

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; CHYMOTRYPSINOGEN; MYOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; THIOREDOXIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHYMOTRYPSINOGEN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HORSES; HUMANS; LACTALBUMIN; LACTOGLOBULINS; METHANOL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SERUM ALBUMIN; THIOREDOXINS; TRIFLUOROETHANOL;

EID: 83555177238     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.23206     Document Type: Article

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