Understanding protein folding with energy landscape theory part II: Quantitative aspects

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 205-286

  Plotkin, Steven S ^a   Onuchic, José N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

DIFFUSION; ENERGY; ENTROPY; KINETICS; LANDSCAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036706015     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583502003785     Document Type: Review

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