Three key residues form a critical contact network in a protein folding transition state

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6820, 2001, Pages 641-645

  Vendruscolo, Michele ^a   Paci, Emanuele ^a,b   Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Karplus, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACID ANHYDRIDE HYDROLASES; BINDING SITES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0035252350     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35054591     Document Type: Article

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