Determination of a transition state at atomic resolution from protein engineering data

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 324, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 151-163

  Paci, Emanuelel ^a,b   Vendruscolo, Michele ^c   Dobson, Christopher M ^c   Karplus, Martin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AcP; EEEF1 potential; Molecular dynamics; Protein folding; values

Indexed keywords

ACYLPHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ENERGY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION;

EID: 0036435907     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00944-0     Document Type: Article

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