A metastable state in folding simulations of a protein model

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 236-241

  Dinner, Aaron R ^a,b   Karplus, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; KINETICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG STABILITY; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031915141     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0398-236     Document Type: Article

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