Folding pathways of a helix-turn-helix model protein

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 101, Issue 34, 1997, Pages 6734-6740

  Hoffmann, Daniel ^a,b   Knapp, Ernst Walter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTEINS;

DIFFUSION COLLISION MODEL; KARPLUS WEAVER MODEL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

POLYPEPTIDES;

EID: 0031208687     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp9627640     Document Type: Article

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