Local interactions dominate folding in a simple protein model

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 988-994

  Unger, Ron ^a,b   Moult, John ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lattice models; Local interactions; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030604696     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0375     Document Type: Article

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