Kinetic steps for α-helix formation

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 343-357

  Bertsch, Ruth Ann ^b   Vaidehi, Nagarajan ^a,b   Chan, Sunney I ^b   Goddard III, William A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

helix; Folding; NEIMO; Polyalanine; Polyglutamine

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GLYCINE; POLYAMINOACID; PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; ENTROPY; FRICTION; HALF LIFE TIME; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; REACTION TIME; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 0032533396     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19981115)33:3<343::AID-PROT4>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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