Desolvation Barrier Effects Are a Likely Contributor to the Remarkable Diversity in the Folding Rates of Small Proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 389, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 619-636

  Ferguson, Allison ^a,b   Liu, Zhirong ^a,b   Chan, Hue Sun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

conformational diffusion; contact order; G model; Kramers' theory; transition state

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION;

EID: 65649148275     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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