Two-state protein folding kinetics through all-atom molecular dynamics based sampling

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2801-2828

  Bolhuis, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Rare events; Rate constant; Reaction mechanism; Review; Transition pathway

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 63849226141     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3415     Document Type: Review

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