Modulation of folding energy landscape by charge-charge interactions:Linking experiments with computational modeling

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

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2015, Pages E259-E266

  Tzul, Franco O ^a   Schweiker, Katrina L ^a   Makhatadze, George I ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge charge interaction; Computational design; Energy landscape; Protein folding; Protein stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; HUMAN; IONIC STRENGTH; KINETICS; LANDSCAPE; MODULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SIMULATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE CHARGE; THERMODYNAMICS; WILD TYPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84921385922     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410424112     Document Type: Article

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