Effects of Molecular Crowding on the Dynamics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Cino, Elio A ^a   Karttunen, Mikko ^b   Choy, Wing Yiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; PROT ALPHA PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TC1; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84870015758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049876     Document Type: Article

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