Fast protein folding on downhill energy landscape

Protein Science

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1801-1803

  Cavalli, Andrea ^a   Haberthür, Urs ^a   Paci, Emanuele ^a   Caflisch, Amedeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

sheet; Folding rate; Levinthal's paradox; Molecular dynamics; Protein folding; Unfolded state

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MELTING POINT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0041842498     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0366103     Document Type: Article

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