Quantifying kinetic paths of protein folding

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1612-1620

  Wang, Jin ^a,b   Zhang, Kun ^a   Lu, Hongyang ^a   Wang, Erkang ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORY;

EID: 24144499831     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.055186     Document Type: Article

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