Local versus nonlocal interactions in protein folding and stability - An experimentalist's point of view

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Muñoz, Victor ^a,b   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG STABILITY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG STABILITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0002682169     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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