Effects of confinement in chaperonin assisted protein folding: Rate enhancement by decreasing the roughness of the folding energy landscape

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 332, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 701-713

  Baumketner, A ^a,b   Jewett, A ^a   Shea, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Chaperonin; Computer simulation; Energy landscape; Minimalist off lattice model; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENCAPSULATION; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0043238073     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00929-X     Document Type: Article

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