Dodging the crisis of folding proteins with knots

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

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3119-3124

  Sułkowska, Joanna I ^a,b   Sułkowski, Piotr ^c,d   Onuchic, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Backtracking; Molecular dynamics; Slipknots; Topological barriers

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN YBEA; PROTEIN YIBK; THYMIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 62549098241     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811147106     Document Type: Article

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