The complete folding pathway of a protein from nanoseconds to microseconds

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6925, 2003, Pages 863-867

  Mayor, Ugo ^a   Guydosh, Nicholas R ^a   Johnson, Christopher M ^a   Gunter Grossmann J ^b   Sato, Satoshi ^a   Jas, Gouri S ^c,e   Freund, Stefan M V ^a   Alonso, Darwin O V ^d   Daggett, Valerie ^d   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

PROTEIN FOLDING;

PROTEINS;

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEAT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KINETICS; LASERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0037456298     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01428     Document Type: Article

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