Folding and binding cascades: shifts in energy landscapes

CJ Tsai, B Ma, R Nussinov - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
Recently, the funnel shape energy landscape theory has been successfully utilized to
describe the folding (1–4) and binding (5) behavior in proteins. While in general the free …

The fast protein folding problem

M Gruebele - Annual review of physical chemistry, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract During protein folding, many of the events leading to secondary and tertiary
structure occur in milliseconds or faster. Modern nuclear magnetic resonance and laser …

α-Helix peptide folding and unfolding activation barriers: a nanosecond UV resonance Raman study

IK Lednev, AS Karnoup, MC Sparrow… - Journal of the American …, 1999 - ACS Publications
We used UV resonance Raman spectroscopy to characterize the equilibrium conformation
and the kinetics of thermal denaturation of a 21 amino acid, mainly alanine, α-helical peptide …

[HTML][HTML] The oxidative refolding of hen lysozyme and its catalysis by protein disulfide isomerase

B van den Berg, EW Chung, CV Robinson… - The EMBO …, 1999 - embopress.org
The oxidative refolding of hen lysozyme has been studied by a variety of time‐resolved
biophysical methods in conjunction with analysis of folding intermediates using reverse …

Independent nucleation and heterogeneous assembly of structure during folding of equine lysozyme

LA Morozova-Roche, JA Jones, W Noppe… - Journal of molecular …, 1999 - Elsevier
The refolding of equine lysozyme from guanidinium chloride has been studied using
hydrogen exchange pulse labelling in conjunction with NMR spectroscopy and stopped flow …

Hierarchies and logarithmic oscillations in the temporal relaxation patterns of proteins and other complex systems

R Metzler, J Klafter, J Jortner - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
Logarithmic oscillations superimposed on the temporal relaxation patterns of complex
systems are considered from the standpoint of their hierarchical origin. We propose that a …

Fragment reconstitution of a small protein: folding energetics of the reconstituted immunoglobulin binding domain B1 of streptococcal protein G

S Honda, N Kobayashi, E Munekata, H Uedaira - Biochemistry, 1999 - ACS Publications
To elucidate early stages in protein folding, we have adopted a fragment reconstitution
method for small proteins. This approach is expected to provide nuclei for protein folding …

Time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy study of the refolding reaction of the α-subunit of tryptophan synthase reveals nonmonotonic behavior of the rotational …

O Bilsel, L Yang, JA Zitzewitz, JM Beechem… - Biochemistry, 1999 - ACS Publications
Time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy of a bound extrinsic probe was studied in an effort to
characterize dynamic properties of the transient partially folded forms that appear during the …

Distinguishing between sequential and nonsequentially folded proteins: implications for folding and misfolding

CJ Tsai, JV Maizel, R Nussinov - Protein science, 1999 - cambridge.org
We describe here an algorithm for distinguishing sequential from nonsequentially folding
proteins. Several experiments have recently suggested that most of the proteins that are …

Neural networks to study invariant features of protein folding

M Compiani, P Fariselli, PL Martelli… - Theoretical Chemistry …, 1999 - Springer
Protein secondary structures result both from short-range and long-range interactions. Here
neural networks are used to implement a procedure to detect regions of the protein …