Increasing temperature accelerates protein unfolding without changing the pathway of unfolding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 189-203

  Day, Ryan ^a   Bennion, Brian J ^a   Ham, Sihyun ^a   Daggett, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated process; Energy landscape; Molecular dynamics; Protein unfolding; Transition state of unfolding

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; DENATURATION; EXPERIMENT; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

MUS;

EID: 0036968512     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00672-1     Document Type: Article

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