Why do protein folding rates correlate with metrics of native topology?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Faísca, Patrícia F N ^a,b   Travasso, Rui D M ^a,c,d   Parisi, Andrea ^a,b   Rey, Antonio ^e  

^a Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; KINETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION STATE ENSEMBLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

PROTEIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84871062621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035599     Document Type: Article

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