Water and molecular chaperones act as weak links of protein folding networks: Energy landscape and punctuated equilibrium changes point towards a game theory of proteins

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2254-2260

  Kovács, István A ^a,b,d   Szalay, Máté S ^a,c,d   Csermely, Peter ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Eötvös Loránd   (Hungary)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d Hung Research Student Association   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chaperone; Energy landscape; Game theory; Protein folding; Punctuated equilibrium; Water

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 17644413780     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.03.056     Document Type: Article

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