Dominant folding pathways of a WW domain

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

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2330-2335

  A Beccara, Silvio ^a,b   Škrbić, Tatjana ^a,c   Covino, Roberto ^a,b   Faccioli, Pietro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b INFN TIFPA   (Italy)

^c ECT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atomistic simulations; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

FIP35 PROTEIN; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENERGY; ENTROPY; FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; REACTION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84857134132     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111796109     Document Type: Article

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