On the origins of the weak folding cooperativity of a designed ββα Ultrafast Protein FSD-1

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Chun ^a   Shea, Joan Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBER; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; COOPERATIVITY; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; FOLDINGS; FORCEFIELDS; MELTING TRANSITIONS; MODELLING SYSTEMS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PROTEIN FOLDING MECHANISMS; ULTRA-FAST;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN; PROTEIN FSD 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FSD 1 PROTEIN, SYNTHETIC; FSD-1 PROTEIN, SYNTHETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 78649646547     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000998     Document Type: Article

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