Mapping fast protein folding with multiple-site fluorescent probes

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

Volumn 112, Issue 26, 2015, Pages 7966-7971

  Prigozhin, Maxim B ^a   Chao, Shu Han ^b   Sukenik, Shahar ^a   Pogorelov, Taras V ^a   Gruebele, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Helix bundle; Molecular dynamics; Protein folding; Thermal denaturation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; MUTATION;

FLUORESCENT DYES; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

EID: 84937846312     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1422683112     Document Type: Article

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