Smoothing of the GB1 hairpin folding landscape by interfacial confinement

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 596-600

  Bhattacharya, Apratim ^a   Best, Robert B ^b   Mittal, Jeetain ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84864720105     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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