Chemical, physical, and theoretical kinetics of an ultrafast folding protein

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

Volumn 105, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 18655-18662

  Kubelka, Jan ^a,b   Henry, Eric R ^a   Cellmer, Troy ^a   Hofrichter, James ^a   Eaton, William A ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Funneled energy landscape; Ising like model; Laser temperature jump; Polypeptide

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENERGY YIELD; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTUM YIELD; TEMPERATURE; VALIDITY;

KINETICS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RENATURATION; THERMODYNAMICS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 57449106823     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808600105     Document Type: Article

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