Outlining Folding Nuclei in Globular Proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 336, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 509-525

  Garbuzynskiy, Sergiy O ^a   Finkelstein, Alexei V ^a   Galzitskaya, Oxana V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Atom atom contacts; Folding nucleus; Protein folding; Transition state; X ray and NMR structures

Indexed keywords

GLOBULAR PROTEIN; HYDROGEN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0742324518     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.12.018     Document Type: Article

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