pH-Jump induced leucine zipper folding beyond the diffusion limit

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1425-1432

  Donten, Mateusz L ^a   Hassan, Shabir ^a   Popp, Alexander ^b   Halter, Jonathan ^a   Hauser, Karin ^b   Hamm, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CROSSLINKING; POLYPEPTIDES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; COILED-COIL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; DIFFUSION CONTROLLED; GLUTAMIC ACID RESIDUES; O-NITROBENZALDEHYDE; TIME-RESOLVED IR SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSIENT INTERMEDIATE;

PEPTIDES;

CROSS LINKING REAGENT; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; PH; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DIFFUSION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84921915792     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp511539c     Document Type: Article

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