Scanning malleable transition state ensembles: Comparing theory and experiment for folding protein U1A

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6433-6439

  Shen, Tongye ^a   Hofmann, Christoph P ^b   Oliveberg, Mikael ^c   Wolynes, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA   (Mexico)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CHEVRONS; NUCLEI; TRANSITION STATE ENSEMBLES (TSE);

PROTEINS;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; ENERGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 17844377028     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0500170     Document Type: Article

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