Hierarchical protein folding pathways: A computational study of protein fragments

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-215

  Haspel, Nurit ^a   Tsai, Chung Jung ^b   Wolfson, Haim ^a   Nussinov, Ruth ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Building blocks; Folding complexity; Hierarchical folding; Protein folding; Protein fragments; Protein structure prediction

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA LYASE; CYTOCHROME C; FUMARATE HYDRATASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE DISSOCIATION INHIBITOR; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; M PROTEIN; OVOTRANSFERRIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COW; DATA BASE; DOGFISH; DUCK; FEMALE; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0345701546     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10294     Document Type: Article

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