De novo prediction of protein folding pathways and structure using the principle of sequential stabilization

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

Volumn 109, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 17442-17447

  Adhikari, Aashish N ^a,b   Freed, Karl F ^a,b   Sosnick, Tobin R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Foldons; Kinetic traps; Monte Carlo simulation; TerltFix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84867907201     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209000109     Document Type: Article

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