Folding of peptides and proteins: Role of disulfide bonds, recent developments

Biomolecular Concepts

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 597-604

  Hidaka, Yuji ^a   Shimamoto, Shigeru ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disulfide; Folding; Intermediate; Kinetic; Protein disulfide isomerase; Regioselective; Selenocysteine

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SELENOCYSTEINE;

CHEMISTRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PROTEIN FOLDING;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISULFIDES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SELENOCYSTEINE;

EID: 84889819594     PISSN: 18685021     EISSN: 1868503X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bmc-2013-0022     Document Type: Review

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