Hierarchy of regions of amino acid sequence with respect to their role in the protein spatial structure

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 183-192

  Berezovsky, Igor N ^a,b   Esipova, Natalia G ^a   Tumanyan, Vladimir G ^a  

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hierarchy of domain structure; Interaction energy; Protein folding; Protein spatial structure; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOMETRY; MURAMIDASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034101680     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/10665270050081450     Document Type: Review

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