The foldon universe: A survey of structural similarity and self-recognition of independently folding units

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-105

  Panchenko, Anna R ^a   Luthey Schulten, Zaida ^a   Cole, Ronald ^a   Wolynes, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Foldon; Minimal frustration; Protein fragment; Structure prediction; Threading

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENERGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031565728     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1205     Document Type: Article

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