Stepwise protein folding at near amino acid resolution by hydrogen exchange and mass spectrometry

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7684-7689

  Hu, Wenbing ^a   Walters, Benjamin T ^a   Kan, Zhong Yuan ^a   Mayne, Leland ^a   Rosen, Laura E ^b,c   Marqusee, Susan ^b,c   Englander, S Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ELEMENT; RIBONUCLEASE H;

ARTICLE; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOPHYSICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RIBONUCLEASE H; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84877360145     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305887110     Document Type: Article

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