On the theory of folding kinetics for short proteins

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 109-114

  Rande, Vijay S ^a,b   Grosberg, Alexander Yu ^b,c   Tanaka, Toyoichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Correlated energy landscape; Folding unfolding kinetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030628053     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1359-0278(97)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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