Protein folding in the landscape perspective: Chevron plots and non- rrhenius kinetics

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 2-33

  Chan, Hue Sun ^a   Dill, Ken A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chevron plot; Energy landscape; Folding funnel; Kinetic trap; Lattice models; Non Arrhenius behavior

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ARRHENIUS;

EID: 0003166498     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19980101)30:1<2::AID-PROT2>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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