Four-body potentials reveal protein-specific correlations to stability changes caused by hydrophobic core mutations

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 311, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 625-638

  Carter Jr , Charles W ^a   Lefebvre, Brendan C ^a   Cammer, Stephen A ^b   Tropsha, Alexander ^b   Edgell, Marshall Hall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational entropy; Database derived potentials; Delaunay tessellation; Elementary tertiary motifs; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA BASE; ENTROPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035943455     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4906     Document Type: Article

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