Distinct Effects of Guanidine Thiocyanate on the Structure of Superfolder GFP

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Stepanenko, Olesya V ^a   Stepanenko, Olga V ^a   Kuznetsova, Irina M ^a   Shcherbakova, Daria M ^b   Verkhusha, Vladislav V ^b   Turoverov, Konstantin K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANIDINE THIOCYANATE; SUPERFOLDER GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; THIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYSTERESIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUANIDINES; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THIOCYANATES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84868676830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048809     Document Type: Article

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