Measuring internal friction of an ultrafast-folding protein

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

Volumn 105, Issue 47, 2008, Pages 18320-18325

  Cellmer, Troy ^a   Henry, Eric R ^a   Hofrichter, James ^a   Eaton, William A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Funneled energy landscape; Ising like model; Kramers; Polypeptide; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FRICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

FRICTION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 57449090161     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806154105     Document Type: Article

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