Numerical study of the entropy loss of dimerization and the folding thermodynamics of the GCN4 leucine zipper

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2801-2811

  Viñals, Jorge ^a,c   Kolinski, Andrzej ^a,b   Skolnick, Jeffrey ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GCN4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENTROPY; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; DATA BASE; HEAT; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOPHYSICS; DATABASES; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTROPY; HEAT; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036841606     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)75289-2     Document Type: Article

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