Atomic-level structure characterization of an ultrafast folding mini-protein denatured state

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Rogne, Per ^a,b   Ozdowy, Przemysław ^a,b   Richter, Christian ^c   Saxena, Krishna ^c   Schwalbe, Harald ^c   Kuhn, Lars T ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN TC5B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ARTICLE; HETERONUCLEAR NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; UREA;

EID: 84864402338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041301     Document Type: Article

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