Identifying the protein folding nucleus using molecular dynamics

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 296, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1183-1188

  Dokholyan, Nikolay V ^a,b   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^a   Stanley, H Eugene ^a   Shakhnovich, Eugene I ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Molecular dynamics; Nucleus; Protein folding; Transition state

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0034628914     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3534     Document Type: Article

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