Nucleation-based prediction of the protein folding rate and its correlation with the folding nucleus size

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2711-2727

  Galzitskaya, Oxana V ^a   Glyakina, Anna V ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Conformational entropy; Dynamic programming; Folding rate; Size of folding nuclei; Two state and multi state folders

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; ENERGY; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PARTICLE SIZE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84868194447     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24156     Document Type: Article

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