A free energy analysis by unfolding applied to 125-mers on a cubic lattice

Folding and Design

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-65

  Chung, Myung S ^a   Neuwald, Andrew F ^a   Wilbur, W John ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy analysis; Lattice model; Metropolis algorithm; Protein folding problem; Unfolding process

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0031933291     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(98)00008-X     Document Type: Article

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