Discovery of a significant, nontopological preference for antiparallel alignment of helices with parallel regions in sheets

Protein Science

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1119-1125

  Hespenheide, Brandon M ^a   Kuhn, Leslie A ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion collision model; Folding cores; Helix and sheet dipoles; Protein design; Protein folding; Secondary structure packing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

PUFFINUS AURICULARIS;

EID: 0037406097     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0238803     Document Type: Article

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