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Ribonucleases as Models for Understanding Protein Folding

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This is a summary of the background, and some of the experimental research in my laboratory, on the physical chemical properties of proteins. The experimental studies were carried out to obtain information about the three-dimensional structure and folding/unfolding pathways of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A and three of its structural homologs, ribonuclease B, frog onconase, and bovine angiogenin.

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Scheraga, H.A. (2011). Ribonucleases as Models for Understanding Protein Folding. In: Nicholson, A. (eds) Ribonucleases. Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21078-5_15

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