Folding nucleus: Specific or multiple? Insights from lattice models and experiments

Folding and Design

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1998, Pages

  Shakhnovich, Eugene I ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DATA ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SAMPLING;

EID: 0032444334     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(98)00056-X     Document Type: Note

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