Conformational dynamics and ensembles in protein folding

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 395-412

  Muñoz, Victor ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Downhill folding; Fast folding; Folding barriers; Free energy surfaces; Protein motions; Single molecule spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34347218159     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.36.040306.132608     Document Type: Review

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