Molecular dynamics simulation reveals a surface salt bridge forming a kinetic trap in unfolding of truncated Staphylococcal nuclease

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 507-515

  Gruia, Andreea D ^b   Fischer, Stefan ^a   Smith, Jeremy C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Ionic interactions; Protein unfolding

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUTAMIC ACID; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL BOND; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ARGININE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEAT; KINETICS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SALTS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0037441481     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10312     Document Type: Article

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