Topography of funneled landscapes determines the thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding

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

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15763-15768

  Wang, Jin ^a,b,c   Oliveira, Ronaldo J ^d,e   Chu, Xiakun ^a,b   Whitford, Paul C ^f   Chahine, Jorge ^d   Han, Wei ^b   Wang, Erkang ^a   Onuchic, José N ^f   Leite, Vitor B P ^d  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^e BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ENERGY AND MATERIALS CNPEM   (Brazil)

^f RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomolecular dynamics; Energy landscape theory

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENTROPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84866865052     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212842109     Document Type: Article

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