Interpreting the folding kinetics of helical proteins

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6751, 1999, Pages 400-403

  Zhou, Yaoqi ^a   Karplus, Martin ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; KINETICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033598375     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43940     Document Type: Article

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