The inverted free energy landscape of an intrinsically disordered peptide by simulations and experiments

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Granata, Daniele ^a,b   Baftizadeh, Fahimeh ^a,c   Habchi, Johnny ^d   Galvagnion, Celine ^d   De Simone, Alfonso ^e   Camilloni, Carlo ^d   Laio, Alessandro ^a   Vendruscolo, Michele ^d  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b Temple University   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84945292167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15449     Document Type: Article

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