Folding and aggregation kinetics of a β-hairpin

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 7023-7035

  Muñoz, Victor ^a,b   Ghirlando, Rodolfo ^a   Blanco, Francisco J ^a,c   Jas, Gouri S ^a,d   Hofrichter, James ^a   Eaton, William A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEDIMENTATION; SOLUTIONS;

HYDROPHOBIC COLLAPSE MECHANISM; KINETIC MODELING; PEPTIDES; RELAXATION RATES;

PROTEINS;

BETA HAIRPIN FORMING PEPTIDE; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIFFUSION; ENTROPY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 33745027667     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi052556a     Document Type: Article

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