Folding at the speed limit

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6936, 2003, Pages 193-197

  Yang, Wei Yuan ^a   Gruebele, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; RATE CONSTANTS;

TRANSITION-STATE THEORY;

PROTEINS;

MUTANT PROTEIN;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REACTION ANALYSIS; THEORY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; KINETICS; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 0038329308     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01609     Document Type: Article

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