The structure of the major transition state for folding of an FF domain from experiment and simulation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 350, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 363-378

  Jemth, Per ^a,c   Day, Ryan ^b   Gianni, Stefano ^a   Khan, Faaizah ^a   Allen, Mark ^a   Daggett, Valerie ^b   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

FF domain; Molecular dynamics simulation; Phi value analysis; Protein engineering; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

BARNASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 20444409471     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.04.067     Document Type: Article

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