Cooperativity in two-state protein folding kinetics

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 822-829

  Weikl, Thomas R ^a,b   Palassini, Matteo ^a,c   Dill, Ken A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

value analysis; Effective contact order; Folding cooperativity; Loop closure entropy; Master equation; Protein folding kinetics; Two state folding

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENTROPY; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; TENASCIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 1342268048     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.03403604     Document Type: Article

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