Free energy landscapes for initiation and branching of protein aggregation

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

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20515-20520

  Zheng, Weihua ^a   Schafer, Nicholas P ^a   Wolynes, Peter G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branched aggregates; Energy landscape theory; Gelation

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84890847498     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320483110     Document Type: Article

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