Interconnection of salt-induced hydrophobic compaction and secondary structure formation depends on solution conditions: Revisiting early events of protein folding at single molecule resolution

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 11546-11555

  Haldar, Shubhasis ^a   Chattopadhyay, Krishnananda ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS BUFFER; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; CYTOCHROME C; EXTENDED RANGE; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS MEASUREMENTS; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; SALT CONCENTRATION; SECONDARY STRUCTURE FORMATION; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SIMULTANEOUS FORMATION; SINGLE-MOLECULE RESOLUTION; SOLUTION CONDITIONS; TIME CONSTANTS; TWO-STATE; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS;

COPOLYMERS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN FOLDING; UREA;

COMPACTION;

CYTOCHROME C; UREA;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CYTOCHROMES C; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENTROPY; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PERCHLORIC ACID; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALTS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS; UREA;

EID: 84859479185     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.315648     Document Type: Article

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