Transition state contact orders correlate with protein folding rates

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 352, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 495-500

  Paci, Emanuele ^a   Lindorff Larsen, Kresten ^b   Dobson, Christopher M ^b   Karplus, Martin ^c   Vendruscolo, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact order; Protein folding; Transition states

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

EID: 24044551638     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.06.081     Document Type: Article

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