Making connections between ultrafast protein folding kinetics and molecular dynamics simulations

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

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6103-6108

  Cellmer, Troy ^a   Buscaglia, Marco ^a,b   Henry, Eric R ^a   Hofrichter, James ^a,b   Eaton, William A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Downhill protein folding; Laser temperature jump; Tryptophan triplet lifetime; Villin headpiece subdomain

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID; GUANIDINE; TRYPTOPHAN; VILLIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME KINETICS; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; NORLEUCINE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TEMPERATURE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 79955013716     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019552108     Document Type: Article

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