Unfolding of the Cold Shock Protein Studied With Biased Molecular Dynamics

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 597-606

  Morra, Giulia ^a   Hodoscek, Milan ^b   Knapp, Ernst Walter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

sheets; Biased unfolding; CspB; Mutants; Radius of gyration; Transition state

Indexed keywords

COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN CSPB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CALDOLYTICUS; BETA SHEET; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS CALDOLYTICUS;

EID: 0242267532     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10344     Document Type: Article

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