Local interactions and the optimization of protein folding

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 282-291

  Doyle, Ross ^a   Simons, Kim ^b   Qian, Hong ^c   Baker, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding energy landscapes; Protein folding kinetics; Transition state approximation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030733858     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199711)29:3<282::AID-PROT3>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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