Analysis of the free-energy surface of proteins from reversible folding simulations

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Allen, Lucy R ^a   Krivov, Sergei V ^a   Paci, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; FREE ENERGY; PROTEINS;

AB INITIO; ATOMIC-RESOLUTION; COMPUTER GENERATED; FOLDED STRUCTURES; FOLDING PATHWAY; FORCEFIELDS; FREE ENERGY SURFACE; GENERATED TRAJECTORIES; REVERSIBLE FOLDING; SIMPLE++;

TRAJECTORIES;

REPRESSOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 68249097717     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000428     Document Type: Article

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