Hydrogen-Bond Driven Loop-Closure Kinetics in Unfolded Polypeptide Chains
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Hydrogen-Bond Driven Loop-Closure Kinetics in Unfolded Polypeptide Chains
Characterization of the length dependence of end-to-end loop-closure kinetics in unfolded polypeptide chains provides an understanding of early steps in protein folding. Here, loop-closure in poly-glycine-serine peptides is investigated by combining single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy with molecular dynamics simulation. For chains containing more than 10 peptide bonds loop-closing rate co...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Computational Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000645