Finite size effects on thermal denaturation of globular proteins

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 26 I, 2004, Pages

  Li, Mai Suan ^a,b   Klimov, Dmitri K ^c   Thirumalai, D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE-SIZED SYSTEMS; GLOBULAR PROTEINS; NATIVE BASIN OF ATTRACTION (NBA); THERMAL DENATURATION;

AMINO ACIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYPEPTIDES; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 42749106226     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.268107     Document Type: Article

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