Experimental tests of villin subdomain folding simulations

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 329, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 625-630

  Kubelka, Jan ^a   Eaton, William A ^a   Hofrichter, James ^a  

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

Author keywords

Laser temperature jump; Protein folding; Villin headpiece

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; PHENYLALANINE; SOLVENT; VILLIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; KINETICS; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THEORY; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

MUS;

EID: 0038054301     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00519-9     Document Type: Article

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