Coupling backbone flexibility and amino acid sequence selection in protein design

Protein Science

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1701-1707

  Su, Alyce ^a   Mayo, Stephen L ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backbone degrees of freedom; Protein design; Protein G; Supersecondary structure parameters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030762021     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560060810     Document Type: Article

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