Two immunoglobulin tandem proteins with a linking β-strand reveal unexpected differences in cooperativity and folding pathways

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 416, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-147

  Steward, Annette ^a   Chen, Qing ^b   Chapman, Robert I ^a   Borgia, Madeleine B ^a   Rogers, Joseph M ^a   Wojtala, Alexsandra ^b   Wilmanns, Matthias ^b   Clarke, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta sheet; multidomain; protein folding; tandem repeat; titin A band

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; TANDEM REPEAT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84856433534     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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