Chevron behavior and isostable enthalpic barriers in protein folding: Successes and limitations of simple Gō-like modeling

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 520-535

  Kaya, Hüseyin ^b   Liu, Zhirong ^c   Chan, Hue Sun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL KINETICS; CHEVRON BEHAVIOR; ENTHALPY; GO LIKE INTERACTION; LATTICE MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SOLVATION;

ARRHENIUS;

EID: 19444381093     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.057471     Document Type: Article

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