Slipknotting upon native-like loop formation in a trefoil knot protein

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

Volumn 107, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 15403-15408

  Noel, Jeffrey K ^a   Sułkowska, Joanna I ^a   Onuchic, José N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy landscape; Knotted protein kinetics; Nontrivial protein topology; Protein folding; Structure based model

Indexed keywords

TREFOIL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

LOTUS;

EID: 77957259237     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009522107     Document Type: Article

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