Kinetic pathways of β-hairpin (un)folding in explicit solvent

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-61

  Bolhuis, Peter G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT; SOLVENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; BETA HAIRPIN FOLDING; BETA SHEET; CALCULATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FORCE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION PATH SAMPLING ALGORITHM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 11244289252     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.048744     Document Type: Article

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