Protein folding: Adding a nucleus to guide helix docking reduces landscape roughness

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 423, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-283

  Wensley, Beth G ^a,b   Kwa, Lee Gyan ^a,b   Shammas, Sarah L ^a   Rogers, Joseph M ^a   Clarke, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDIMMUNE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

energy landscape; helix bundle; minimal frustration; protein folding; value analysis

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; KINETICS; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ROUGHNESS; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS; VISCOSITY;

RUMEX;

EID: 84867080086     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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