The Flory isolated-pair hypothesis is not valid for polypeptide chains: Implications for protein folding

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 12565-12570

  Pappu, Rohit V ^a   Srinivasan, Rajgopal ^b   Rose, George D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Helix coil theory; Levinthal paradox

Indexed keywords

ALANINE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0033730431     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.23.12565     Document Type: Article

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