Critical nucleation size in the folding of small apparently two-state proteins

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1173-1181

  Bai, Yawen ^a   Zhou, Hongyi ^b   Zhou, Yaoqi ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding rate; Nucleation size; Topology; Total contact distance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING;

KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 1942473645     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.03587604     Document Type: Article

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