Protein folding kinetics and thermodynamics from atomistic simulation

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

Volumn 109, Issue 44, 2012, Pages 17845-17850

  Piana, Stefano ^a   Lindorff Larsen, Kresten ^a   Shaw, David E ^a,b  

^a D E SHAW RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Amber ff99SB* ILDN; Enthalpy; Heat capacity; Pre exponential factor; Transition path time

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; VILLIN;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMISTIC SIMULATION; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; HEAT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS; WILD TYPE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84868155171     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201811109     Document Type: Article

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