Molecular simulations of cotranslational protein folding: Fragment stabilities, folding cooperativity, and trapping in the ribosome

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 0824-0841

  Elcock, Adrian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHAINS; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; VIRUSES;

BARNASE; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR 2; COOPERATIVITY; FOLDINGS; IN-VITRO; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; PROTEIN FOLDINGS; REFOLDING; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; VIRUS PROTEINS;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

BARNASE; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR; DNA FRAGMENT; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEINASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 33746592161     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020098     Document Type: Article

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