Transient, highly populated, building blocks folding model

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 209-235

  Tsai, Chung Jung ^a   Nussinov, Ruth ^a,b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Building block; Disconnectivity graphs; Funnels; Misfolding; Protein folding; Sequential folding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOPHYSICS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0035750382     PISSN: 10859195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/CBB:34:2:209     Document Type: Review

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