Protein folding mechanisms and the multidimensional folding funnel

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 136-158

  Socci, Nicholas D ^a,b   Onuchic, José Nelson ^b   Wolynes, Peter G ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding funnels; Landscape theory; Lattice models; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032147243     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19980801)32:2<136::AID-PROT2>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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