Desolvation is a likely origin of robust enthalpic barriers to protein folding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 349, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 872-889

  Liu, Zhirong ^a   Hue, Sun Chan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activation enthalpy; Activation entropy; Arrhenius; Chevron plot; Heat capacity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SOLVATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARRHENIUS;

EID: 19444384541     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.03.084     Document Type: Article

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