Collapse kinetics and chevron plots from simulations of denaturant-dependent folding of globular proteins

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

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 7787-7792

  Liu, Zhenxing ^a   Reddy, Govardhan ^a   O'Brien, Edward P ^a   Thirumalai, D ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetic cooperativity; Pathway diversity; Protein denaturation; Self organized polymer model

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; GUANIDINE; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN SH3; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACIDS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; THERMODYNAMICS;

KOBUS;

EID: 79956370148     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019500108     Document Type: Article

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