Importance of context in protein folding: Secondary structural propensities versus tertiary contact-assisted secondary structure formation

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4153-4163

  Scott, Kathryn A ^a   Alonso, Darwin O V ^a   Pan, Yongping ^a,b   Daggett, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HELIX FORMATION PROCESS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SALT BRIDGES; SECONDARY STRUCTURE FORMATION; TERTIARY CONTACT-ASSISTED MECHANISM;

PROTEINS;

BARNASE; PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A;

EID: 33645552899     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0517281     Document Type: Article

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