Non-native interactions, effective contact order, and protein folding: A mutational investigation with the energetically frustrated hydrophobic model

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-180

  Treptow, Werner L ^a   Barbosa, Marco Aurélio A ^a   Garcia, Leandro G ^a   Pereira De Araújo, Antônio F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

value; Folding nucleus; Monte Carlo simulation; SH3 domain; Topological and energetic frustration

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SH3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CHELATION; ENTROPY; GENE MUTATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036836534     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10166     Document Type: Article

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