All-atom simulations of protein folding and unfolding

Advances in Protein Chemistry

Volumn 66, Issue , 2003, Pages 373-403

  Day, Ryan ^a   Daggett, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APROTININ; BARNASE; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR 2; EGG WHITE; ENGRAILED HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LYSOZYME; MYOGLOBIN; POLYMER; PROTEIN A; PROTEIN G; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VILLIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REVIEW; SH3 DOMAIN;

EID: 0242610902     PISSN: 00653233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3233(03)66009-2     Document Type: Article

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