Denaturant-induced unfolding of the acetyl-esterase from Escherichia coli

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 46, 2004, Pages 14637-14643

  Del Vecchio, Pompea ^a   Graziano, Giuseppe ^b   Granata, Vincenzo ^a   Farias, Tiziana ^a   Barone, Guido ^a   Mandrich, Luigi ^c   Rossi, Mosè ^c   Manco, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; DATA REDUCTION; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UREA;

ACETYLE-ESTERASE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; GUANIDINE HYDROCLHORIDE (GUHCL);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ACETYL ESTERASE; GUANIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DENATURATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLESTERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANIDINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS; UREA; VALINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 8744310203     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048344f     Document Type: Article

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