A minimal physically realistic protein-like lattice model: Designing an energy landscape that ensures all-or-none folding to a unique native state

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1518-1526

  Pokarowski, Piotr ^a   Kolinski, Andrzej ^b,c   Skolnick, Jeffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0037343134     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74964-9     Document Type: Article

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