Assembly and Kinetic Folding Pathways of A Tetrameric β-Sheet Complex: Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Simplified off-Lattice Protein Models

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 31-49

  Jang, Hyunbum ^a   Hall, Carol K ^a   Zhou, Yaoqi ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; COMPLEX FORMATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

EID: 0346688724     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74081-3     Document Type: Article

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