Funnels, pathways, and the energy landscape of protein folding: A synthesis

Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 167-195

  Bryngelson, Joseph D ^a   Onuchic, José Nelson ^b   Socci, Nicholas D ^b   Wolynes, Peter G ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

energy landscape; folding funnel; folding kinetics; folding pathway; folding thermodynamics; lattice simulation; protein engineering; protein folding

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARRHENIUS;

EID: 0028947257     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.340210302     Document Type: Article

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