Redesigning the hydrophobic core of a model β-sheet protein: Destabilizing traps through a threading approach

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 582-591

  Sorenson, Jon M ^a   Head Gordon, Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple histogram method; Multistate kinetics; Off lattice models; Protein design; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENERGY; HISTOGRAM; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

DRUG DESIGN; DRUG STABILITY; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032726519     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19991201)37:4<582::AID-PROT9>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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