Computer simulation of the competition between protein folding and aggregation

Fluid Phase Equilibria

Volumn 158-160, Issue , 1999, Pages 87-93

  Gupta, Prashant ^a   Hall, Carol K ^a   Voegler, Anne ^a  

^a Campus Box 7908   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Folding intermediates; Folding pathways; Protein aggregation; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTEINS;

FOLDING INTERMEDIATES; FOLDING PATHWAYS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AGGLOMERATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033150721     PISSN: 03783812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3812(99)00119-3     Document Type: Article

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