Protein Conformational Transitions as Seen from the Solvent: Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion Studies of Water, Co-solvent, and Denaturant Interactions with Nonnative Proteins

Protein Folding Handbook

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 201-246

  Halle, Bertil ^a   Denisov, Vladimir P ^a   Modig, Kristofer ^b   Davidovic, Monika ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Information; Relaxation; Stability; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889854751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527619498.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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