Deciphering the timescales and mechanisms of protein folding using minimal off-lattice models.
Considerable insights into the mechanisms and timescales of protein folding have been obtained from detailed studies of minimal off-lattice models. These models are coarse-grained representations of polypeptide chains. Many novel predictions of the mechanisms and timescales of the folding of proteins have been made using simulations of off-lattice models. The concepts derived from these simulations have been used to analyze the recent experiments and simulations of proteins and peptides.
D007700:Kinetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics