More compact protein globules exhibit slower folding rates

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 329-332

  Galzitskaya, Oxana V ^a   Reifsnyder, Danielle C ^a   Bogatyreva, Natalya S ^a   Ivankov, Dmitry N ^a   Garbuzynskiy, Sergiy O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Compactness; Number of contacts per residue; Protein packing; Structural class

Indexed keywords

GLOBULAR PROTEIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 37849043628     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21619     Document Type: Article

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