Cooperativity and the origins of rapid, single-exponential kinetics in protein folding

Protein Science

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1608-1618

  Faísca, Patrícia F N ^a   Plaxco, Kevin W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact order; Misfolded states; Monte Carlo simulation; Native topology; Optimal folding temperature; Two state

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

ELECTROSTATICS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYMERS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33745698759     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.062180806     Document Type: Article

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