Quantification of excluded volume effects on the folding landscape of pseudomonas aeruginosa apoazurin in vitro

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1689-1699

  Christiansen, Alexander ^a   Wittung Stafshede, Pernilla ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOAZURIN; APOPROTEIN; AZURIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEXTRAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; KINETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPROTEINS; AZURIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DEXTRANS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84885155721     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.08.038     Document Type: Article

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