Local secondary structure content predicts folding rates for simple, two-state proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 327, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1149-1154

  Gong, Haipeng ^a   Isom, Daniel G ^a   Srinivasan, Rajgopal ^a   Rose, George D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact order; Folding kinetics; Secondary structure; Two state folding

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0037432567     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00211-0     Document Type: Article

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