The Folding Pathway of Spectrin R17 from Experiment and Simulation: Using Experimentally Validated MD Simulations to Characterize States Hinted at by Experiment

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 359, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-173

  Scott, Kathryn A ^a,b   Randles, Lucy G ^a   Moran, Stephen J ^a   Daggett, Valerie ^b   Clarke, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

chevron; molecular dynamics; protein folding; spectrin; value

Indexed keywords

SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; DENATURATION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHICKENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTRIN;

EID: 33745899026     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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