Downhill versus two-state protein folding in a statistical mechanical model

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 126, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Bruscolini, Pierpaolo ^a   Pelizzola, Alessandro ^b,c   Zamparo, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

KINETIC PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL MECHANICAL MODEL;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34250012657     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2738473     Document Type: Article

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