Folding kinetics of two-state proteins: Effect of circularization, permutation, and crosslinks

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 332, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 953-963

  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

Circular permutation; Effective contact order; Loop closure entropy; Multiple supply line model; Protein folding kinetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; ENTROPY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0041825363     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00884-2     Document Type: Article

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