Voronoï tessellation reveals the condensed matter character of folded proteins

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 3532-3535

  Soyer, Alain ^a   Chomilier, Jacques ^a   Mornon, Jean Paul ^a   Jullien, Rémi ^b   Sadoc, Jean François ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d Laboratoire associé au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN FOLDING;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

AMINO ACIDS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GEOMETRY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

CONDENSED MATTER; PACKING GEOMETRY; VORONOI TESSELLATION;

PROTEINS;

EID: 0034287449     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3532     Document Type: Article

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