Probing free-energy surfaces with differential scanning calorimetry

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 231-255

  Sanchez Ruiz, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

barrierless folding; energy landscape; fast folding kinetics; free energy barriers; protein folding

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; ENERGY BARRIERS; FREE ENERGY; KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BARRIERLESS FOLDING; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; FAST-FOLDING KINETIC; FOLDING KINETICS; FOLDINGS; FREE ENERGY BARRIER; FREE ENERGY SURFACE; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; PROTEIN FOLDINGS; PROTEIN PARTITION;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY;

PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79953762890     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032210-103504     Document Type: Article

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