Rate of protein folding near the point of thermodynamic equilibrium between the coil and the most stable chain fold

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-121

  Finkelstein, Alexei V ^a   Badretdinov, Azat Ya ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

All or none transition; Entropy by energy compensation; Lowest energy fold; Nucleation; Protein folding pathway; Transition state

Indexed keywords

APROTININ;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

APROTININ; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030623529     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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