Folding rates and low-entropy-loss routes of two-state proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 329, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 585-598

  Weikl, Thomas R ^a,b   Dill, Ken A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective contact order; Folding mechanism; Loop closure entropy; Native state topology; Protein folding kinetics

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THEORY;

EID: 0038630483     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00436-4     Document Type: Article

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