Effects of macromolecular crowding on burst phase kinetics of cytochrome c folding

Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 49, 2012, Pages 9836-9845

  Chen, Eefei ^a   Christiansen, Alexander ^c   Wang, Qian ^b   Cheung, Margaret S ^b   Kliger, David S ^a   Wittung Stafshede, Pernilla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED; CYTOCHROME C; DEXTRAN SOLUTIONS; EXCLUDED VOLUME; EXCLUDED VOLUME EFFECTS; FOLDING KINETICS; GUANIDINIUM; HEME LIGATION; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; MICROVISCOSITIES; PHASE KINETICS; PHOSPHATE BUFFERS; TIME-RESOLVED CIRCULAR DICHROISM; TIME-SCALES; VISCOSITY EFFECTS;

DEXTRAN; MACROMOLECULES; PORPHYRINS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); VISCOSITY;

KINETICS;

COAGULATING AGENT; CROWDING AGENT; CYTOCHROME C; DEXTRAN 70; GUANIDINE; HEME; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BURST PHASE KINETICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GRAIN; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISCOSITY;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOCHROMES C; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 84870883706     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi301324y     Document Type: Article

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