Cooperativity, smooth energy landscapes and the origins of topology-dependent protein folding rates

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 247-253

  Jewett, Andrew I ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^b   Plaxco, Kevin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact order; Non additivity; Topological frustration

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0037423710     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01356-6     Document Type: Article

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