Cooperativity and protein folding rates

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-15

  Portman, John J ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77749324277     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.12.013     Document Type: Review

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