Comparison of successive transition states for folding reveals alternative early folding pathways of two homologous proteins

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

Volumn 105, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 19241-19246

  Calosci, Nicoletta ^a,b   Chi, Celestine N ^a   Richter, Barbara ^c   Camilloni, Carlo ^c   Engström, Åke ^a   Eklund, Lars ^a   Travaglini Allocatelli, Carlo ^a,b,c   Gianni, Stefano ^b   Vendruscolo, Michele ^c   Jemth, Per ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy landscape; Kinetics; Molecular dynamics; Phi analysis; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 13; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PDZ DOMAINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE, NON-RECEPTOR TYPE 13; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 58049200632     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804774105     Document Type: Article

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