Chemical frustration in the protein folding landscape: Grand canonical ensemble simulations of cytochrome c

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2394-2402

  Weinkam, Patrick ^a,b   Romesberg, Floyd E ^a,b   Wolynes, Peter G ^a,b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PH; BIO-MOLECULAR; CHEMICAL SPECIES; CYTOCHROME C; DISCRETE SIMULATIONS; ENERGY LANDSCAPES; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FT-IR SPECTROSCOPIES; GRAND CANONICAL; GRAND CANONICAL ENSEMBLES; GRAND-CANONICAL FORMALISMS; HEME LIGATIONS; INORGANIC CHEMISTRIES; NATIVE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL DETAILS;

COMBINES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PORPHYRINS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

CYTOCHROME C; LYSINE;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION;

CYTOCHROMES C; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 64849115340     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi802293m     Document Type: Article

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