The nature of the free energy barriers to two-state folding

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 142-152

  Akmal, Arya ^a   Muñoz, Victor ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy barriers; Kinetics; Mechanism; Protein folding; Two state

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOPHILIN; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SOLVATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 4444324627     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20172     Document Type: Article

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