Free energy barriers in protein folding and unfolding reactions

Current Science

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 457-475

  Jha, Santosh Kumar ^a   Udgaonkar, Jayant B ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cooperativity; Energy landscape; Kinetics; Protein folding and unfolding; Transition state

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956838034     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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