A systematic study of the vibrational free energies of polypeptides in folded and random states

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2739-2753

  Ma, Buyong ^a   Tsai, Chung Jung ^b   Nussinov, Ruth ^b,c,d  

^a Laboratory of Experimental Immunology   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENTROPY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033729617     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76513-1     Document Type: Article

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