Calculation of mutational free energy changes in transition states for protein folding

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1207-1214

  Lindorff Larsen, Kresten ^a   Paci, Emanuele ^b   Serrano, Luis ^c   Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Vendruscolo, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0041843690     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74556-1     Document Type: Article

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