A hypothesis to reconcile the physical and chemical unfolding of proteins

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

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2015, Pages E2775-E2784

  De Oliveira, Guilherme A P ^a   Silva, Jerson L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hydrostatic; NMR; Protein folding; SAXS; Urea

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; UREA; WATER; ABELSON KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE; TITRIMETRY; WATER STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AGARICALES; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ABL; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; UREA; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84930227070     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500352112     Document Type: Article

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