Adding backbone to protein folding: Why proteins are polypeptides

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Honig, Barry ^a   Cohen, Fred E ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Box 0450 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0001842441     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00005-3     Document Type: Article

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