Residues participating in the protein folding nucleus do not exhibit preferential evolutionary conservation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 316, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 225-233

  Larson, Stefan M ^a   Ruczinski, Ingo ^b   Davidson, Alan R ^c   Baker, David ^d   Plaxco, Kevin W ^e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Homology; Nucleation; Phi value; Sequence entropy; Two state

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; KINETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0036295887     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5344     Document Type: Article

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