Squeezed Exponential Kinetics to Describe a Nonglassy Downhill Folding as Observed in a Lattice Protein Model

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-106

  Nakamura, Hironori K ^a   Sasai, Masaki ^b   Takano, Mitsunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

First passage time; Free energy profile; Kinetic partitioning; Monte Carlo simulation; Population analysis; Stretched exponential; Subdiffusion; Temperature dependence; Two state folder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENTROPY; HILL REACTION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1442324638     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10583     Document Type: Article

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