Folding of multidomain proteins: Biophysical consequences of tethering even in apparently independent folding

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2780-2798

  Arviv, Oshrit ^a   Levy, Yaakov ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coarse grained simulation; Conjugated protein; Energy landscape; Flexible linker; Multidomain protein

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CATALYST; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84868198303     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24161     Document Type: Article

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