Dynamics of protein folding: Probing the kinetic network of folding-unfolding transitions with experiment and theory

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1814, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1001-1020

  Buchner, Ginka S ^a,b   Murphy, Ronan D ^c   Buchete, Nicolae Viorel ^c,d   Kubelka, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse graining; Downhill folding; Dynamics; Elementary events in folding; Experimental kinetics; Free energy surface; Master equations; Molecular dynamics simulations; Protein folding; Protein folding speed limit; Ultra fast folding

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIMULATION; VISCOSITY;

KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 79958852980     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: 18781454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2010.09.013     Document Type: Review

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