Nonatomic solvent-driven Voronoi tessellation of proteins: An open tool to analyze protein folds

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 446-456

  Angelov, Borislav ^a,d   Sadoc, Jean François ^a   Jullien, Rémi ^b   Soyer, Alain ^b   Mornon, Jean Paul ^c   Chomilier, Jacques ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Hydrophilic hydrophobic properties; Protein folding; Voronoi tessellation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROSTATICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLVENTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0036892439     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10220     Document Type: Article

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