Free-energy landscapes of proteins in the presence and absence of force

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 112, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 16902-16907

  Yew, Zu Thur ^a   Krivov, Sergei ^b   Paci, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; POLYPEPTIDES;

APPLIED FORCES; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; ENERGY LANDSCAPES; EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES; FOLDING PROPERTIES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DOMAINS; MECHANICAL UNFOLDING; NON EQUILIBRIUMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 58149144558     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp807316e     Document Type: Article

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