Criteria for Downhill protein folding: Calorimetry, chevron plot, kinetic relaxation, and single-molecule radius of gyration in chain models with subdued degrees of cooperativity

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 373-391

  Knott, Michael ^a   Chan, Hue Sun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chevron rollover; Fret; Heat capacity; Sigmoidal transition; Single exponential kinetics; Van't Hoff enthalpy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; ENTHALPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

CALORIMETRY; HEAT; HOT TEMPERATURE; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749027499     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21066     Document Type: Article

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