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Bacteriorhodopsin folds through a poorly organized transition state.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 26 Nov 2014
Schlebach Jonathan P, Woodall Nicholas B, Bowie James U, Park Chiwook
Abstract excerpt
The folding mechanisms of helical membrane proteins remain largely uncharted. Here we characterize the kinetics of bacteriorhodopsin folding and employ φ-value analysis to explore the folding transition state. First, we developed and confirmed a kinetic model that allowed us to assess the rate of folding from SDS-denatured bacteriorhodopsin (bRU) and provides accurate thermodynamic information even under...
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