Multiple folding pathways of the SH3 domain

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 521-533

  Borreguero, Jose M ^a   Ding, Feng ^b   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^a   Stanley, H Eugene ^a   Dokholyan, Nikolay V ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; HYPOTHESIS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SH3 DOMAIN; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 3042857533     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.039529     Document Type: Article

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