Modeling protein folding: The beauty and power of simplicity

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Shakhnovich, Eugene I ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 0002698766     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00027-2     Document Type: Article

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