Factors that affect the folding ability of proteins

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 34-40

  Dinner, Aaron R ^a   Abkevich, Victor ^a   Shakhnovich, Eugene ^a   Karplus, Martin ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Heteropolymer; Lattice model; Monte Carlo; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0033121095     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19990401)35:1<34::AID-PROT4>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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