Protein folding kinetics: Timescales, pathways and energy landscapes in terms of sequence-dependent properties

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-22

  Veitshans, Thomas ^a   Klimov, Dmitri ^a   Thirumalai, Devarajan ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Collapse and folding transition temperature; Kinetic partitioning mechanism; Native conformation nucleation collapse; Protein folding; Three stage multipathway mechanism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHEMICAL MODEL; KINETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030624384     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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