The present view of the mechanism of protein folding

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 497-502

  Daggett, Valerie ^a   Fersht, Alan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Chemistry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARNASE; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; BETA SHEET; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASES; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037686252     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1126     Document Type: Review

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