The origins of protein secondary structure: Effects of packing density and hydrogen bonding studied by a fast conformational search

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 214-225

  Hunt, Nathaniel G ^a   Gregoret, Lydia M ^b   Cohen, Fred E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational entropy; Hydrogen bonding; Monte Carlo algorithm; Protein folding; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENTROPY; HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0027992140     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1994.1490     Document Type: Article

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