Capillarity theory for the fly-casting mechanism

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

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2746-2750

  Trizac, Emmanuel ^a   Levy, Yaakov ^b   Wolynes, Peter G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding mechanism; Disordered proteins; Fast folding; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

BINDING SITES; CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 77649266958     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914727107     Document Type: Article

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