Optimum superimposition of protein structures: Ambiguities and implications

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-132

  Zu Kang, Feng ^a   Sippl, Manfred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fold recognition; Protein conformation; Protein evolution; Protein modeling; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030334647     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00021-1     Document Type: Article

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