| Literature DB >> 16116080 |
Patrick Weinkam1, Chenghang Zong, Peter G Wolynes.
Abstract
Proteins fold through a variety of mechanisms. For a given protein, folding routes largely depend on the protein's stability and its native-state geometry, because the landscape is funneled. These ideas are corroborated for cytochrome c by using a coarse-grained topology-based model with a perfect funnel landscape that includes explicit modeling of the heme. The results show the importance of the heme as a nucleation site and explain the observed hydrogen exchange patterns of cytochrome c within the context of energy landscape theory.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16116080 PMCID: PMC1194935 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0505274102
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205