Cooperativity, local-nonlocal coupling, and nonnative interactions: Principles of protein folding from coarse-grained models

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 301-326

  Chan, Hue Sun ^a   Zhang, Zhuqing ^a   Wallin, Stefan ^b   Liu, Zhirong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

desolvation; energy landscape; enthalpic barrier; folding funnel; Levinthal paradox; native topology

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; COARSE-GRAINED MODELING;

COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; DESOLVATION; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; ENTHALPIC BARRIERS; FOLDING FUNNEL; FOLDINGS; LEVINTHAL PARADOX; NATIVE TOPOLOGY; NON-NATIVE INTERACTIONS; PROTEIN FOLDINGS;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79953747234     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032210-103405     Document Type: Article

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