Surprisingly high correlation between early and late stages in non-two-state protein folding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 357, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1647-1654

  Kamagata, Kiyoto ^a   Kuwajima, Kunihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backbone topology; Folding intermediate; Folding kinetics; Non two state protein; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645049047     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.01.072     Document Type: Article

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