Favorable domain size in proteins

Folding and Design

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-17

  Xu, Dong ^a,c   Nussinov, Ruth ^a,b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain; Entropy; Free energy; Protein folding; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; HYDRATION; MOLECULAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0031932170     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(98)00004-2     Document Type: Article

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