What can one learn from experiments about the elusive transition state?

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2446-2457

  Chang, Iksoo ^a,b   Cieplak, Marek ^a,c   Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   Maritan, Amos ^d,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Protein engineering; Protein folding; Transition state

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENERGY; EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; MODEL; MODEL ENERGY LANDSCAPE; PHI VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUALITY CONTROL; THEORY;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 4344572930     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.04713804     Document Type: Article

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