“…Biomacromolecules can be unfolded in many different ways (Fürtig et al, 2007b;Roder et al, 2004). Proteins can be chemically denatured using high concentrations (6-8 M) of guanidinium chloride (GdnCl) (Logan et al, 1994;Zeeb and Balbach, 2004) or urea (Egan et al, 1993;Neri et al, 1992;Schwalbe et al, 1997), but also organic solvents including 2,2,2-triflouroethanol (TFE) or dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (Buck, 1998;Buck et al, 1995Buck et al, , 1993Nishimura et al, 2005). The (re-)folding of chemically denatured proteins can then be initiated with a rapid dilution into native buffer conditions (Balbach et al, 1995) or vice versa for unfolding of native proteins (Kiefhaber et al, 1995).…”