Identifying protein folding cores from the evolution of flexible regions during unfolding

Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 195-207

  Hespenheide, Brandon M ^a,b   Rader, A J ^b   Thorpe, M F ^b   Kuhn, Leslie A ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apo myoglobin; Barnase; Bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor; Cytochrome c; Flexibility modeling; Folding nucleus; Folding pathways; Graph theory; Hydrogen bond networks; Hydrogen exchange NMR; Ribonuclease T1; Structural stability; Thermal denaturation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS;

SALT BRIDGES;

PROTEINS;

DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS RIBONUCLEASE; CYTOCHROME C; INTERLEUKIN 1; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CODING; COVALENT BOND; DENATURATION; DILUTION; ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

BOVINAE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROGEN BONDING; INTERLEUKIN-1; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036888379     PISSN: 10933263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1093-3263(02)00146-8     Document Type: Article

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