Effects of confinement on thermal stability and folding kinetics in a simple Ising-like model

Physical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Caraglio, M ^a,b   Pelizzola, A ^a,b,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c HuGeF Torino   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84856948690     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/9/1/016006     Document Type: Article

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