The dual-basin landscape in GFP folding

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

Volumn 105, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 12283-12288

  Andrews, Benjamin T ^a   Gosavi, Shachi ^a   Finke, John M ^b   Onuchic, José N ^a   Jennings, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding funnel; Molecular dynamics; Multicanonical method; Protein folding; Topological frustration

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 50449096951     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804039105     Document Type: Article

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