Misplaced helix slows down ultrafast pressure-jump protein folding

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

Volumn 110, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 8087-8092

  Prigozhin, Maxim B ^a   Liu, Yanxin ^b   Wirth, Anna Jean ^a   Kapoor, Shobhna ^c   Winter, Roland ^c   Schulten, Klaus ^b,d   Gruebele, Martin ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Downhill folding; Fluorescence lifetime; Lambda repressor; Molecular dynamics simulation; Thermal denaturation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DENATURATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

DOWNHILL FOLDING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME; LAMBDA REPRESSOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; THERMAL DENATURATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; PRESSURE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84877083850     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219163110     Document Type: Article

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