The role of non-native interactions in the folding of knotted proteins

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Škrbić, Tatjana ^a,b   Micheletti, Cristian ^c   Faccioli, Pietro ^d,e  

^a ECT   (Italy)

^b LISC Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Science   (Italy)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e INFN TIFPA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; ENZYMES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

AMINO ACID INTERACTIONS; COARSE-GRAINED; FOLDED PROTEINS; FOLDINGS; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE INTERACTIONS; PROTEIN FOLDINGS; PROTEIN MODELS; QUASI-CHEMICAL; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ACETYLORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; N ACETYLORNITHINE TRANSCARBAMYLASE; N-ACETYLORNITHINE TRANSCARBAMYLASE; TRANSFERASE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STATISTICS;

CARBOXYL AND CARBAMOYL TRANSFERASES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84864054045     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002504     Document Type: Article

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