Native-like mean structure in the unfolded ensemble of small proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 323, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 153-164

  Zagrovic, Bojan ^a   Snow, Christopher D ^a   Khaliq, Siraj ^a   Shirts, Michael R ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational averaging; Distributed computing; Mean structure hypothesis; Unfolded state of proteins

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; TRYPTOPHAN ZIPPER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VILLIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

MUS;

EID: 0036394906     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00888-4     Document Type: Article

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