Effect of alphabet size and foldability requirements on protein structure designability

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-124

  Buchler, Nicolas E G ^a   Goldstein, Richard A ^a,b  

^a Department of Biological Chemistry   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alphabet; Designability; Foldability; Lattice models; Protein folding; Spin glass theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACIDS; KINETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0032939920     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19990101)34:1<113::AID-PROT9>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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