The calorimetric criterion for a two-state process revisited

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1064-1074

  Zhou, Yaoqi ^a   Hall, Carol K ^b   Karplus, Martin ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Calorimetric criterion; Free energy barrier; Protein folding; Simple models; Two state transition

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; PROTEIN; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; HEAT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032902402     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.5.1064     Document Type: Article

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