Knotting a protein in explicit solvent

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 3570-3573

  Noel, Jeffrey K ^a   Onuchic, José N ^a   Sulkowska, Joanna I ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

complex topology; energy landscape theory; protein folding; salt bridge; slipknots; structure based model

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TOPOLOGY; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; SALT BRIDGES; SLIPKNOTS; STRUCTURE-BASED;

PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84887638609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401842f     Document Type: Article

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