La cinética dependiente de la detección como una sonda de plegamiento de la microestructura del paisaje

Wei Yuan Yang1, Martin Gruebele

  • 1Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA. weiyang@fas.harvard.edu

Resumen

Los paisajes de plegamiento de proteínas tienen muchos mínimos de energía, desde la lenta isomerización de prolina hasta microestructuras rápidas de submicrosegundos. La cinética dependiente de la longitud de onda revela estas dinámicas ocultas de plegamiento de proteínas y la rugosidad del paisaje energético.

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