Different folding transition states may result in the same native structure

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 874-880

  Viguera, Ana Rosa ^a   Serrano, Luis ^a   Wilmanns, Matthias ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b Cristal Grp Struct Biocomputing   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTRIN;

EID: 0029760326     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1096-874     Document Type: Review

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