Assessment of local friction in protein folding dynamics using a helix cross-linker

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 14688-14696

  Markiewicz, Beatrice N ^a   Jo, Hyunil ^b   Culik, Robert M ^a   DeGrado, William F ^b   Gai, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; EXCLUDED VOLUME EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOLDING KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING DYNAMICS; PROTEIN STABILITY; STERIC HINDRANCES;

PROTEINS;

INTERNAL FRICTION;

3 XYLENE; 3-XYLENE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; PROTEIN; XYLENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; XYLENES;

EID: 84891360974     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409334h     Document Type: Article

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