Folding kinetics of WW domains with the united residue force field for bridging microscopic motions and experimental measurements

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

Volumn 111, Issue 51, 2014, Pages 18243-18248

  Zhou, Rui ^a,b,c   Maisuradze, Gia G ^a   Suñol, David ^d   Todorovski, Toni ^d   Macias, Maria J ^d,e   Xiao, Yi ^b   Scheraga, Harold A ^a   Czaplewski, Cezary ^c   Liwo, Adam ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

FBP28 WW domain; Folding rates; Free energy landscapes; Millisecond timescale canonical MD simulations; Nonnatural variants

Indexed keywords

FORMIN BINDING PROTEIN 28; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BETA SHEET; FRICTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

KINETICS; MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84919884353     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420914111     Document Type: Article

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