Protein folding: Independent unrelated pathways or predetermined pathway with optional errors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 7182-7187

  Bédard, Sabrina ^a   Krishna, Mallela M G ^a,b   Mayne, Leland ^a   Englander, S Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Foldons; PPOE model; Staphylococcal nuclease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INDEPENDENT UNRELATED PATHWAY MODEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDETERMINED PATHWAY OPTIONAL ERROR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; GUANIDINE; KINETICS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 44449113414     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801864105     Document Type: Article

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