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What causes hyperfluorescence: folding intermediates or conformationally flexible native states?
Biophysical journal - 1 Jul 2002
Ervin John, Larios Edgar, Osváth Szabolcs, Schulten Klaus, Gruebele Martin
Abstract excerpt
Hyperfluorescent intensity maxima during protein unfolding titrations are often taken as a sign for a thermodynamic folding intermediate. Here we explore another possibility: that hyperfluorescence could be the signature of a "pretransition" conformationally loosened native state. To model such native states, we study mutants of a fluorescent ubiquitin variant, placing cavities at various distances from the...
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