Computing the stability diagram of the Trp-cage miniprotein

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

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 17754-17759

  Paschek, Dietmar ^a   Hempel, Sascha ^a   García, Angel E ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding; Free energy; Hydrostatic pressure; Simulations

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRP CAGE MINIPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; HYDRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 56649083699     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804775105     Document Type: Article

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