Evolutionary conservation in protein folding kinetics

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 303-312

  Plaxco, Kevin W ^a   Larson, Stefan ^c   Ruczinski, Ingo ^b   Riddle, David S ^a   Thayer, Edward C ^a   Buchwitz, Brian ^a   Davidson, Alan R ^c   Baker, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; Nucleation condensation; Phi values

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0034724558     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3663     Document Type: Article

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