Protein folding and the organization of the protein topology universe

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-19

  Lindorff Larsen, Kresten ^a   Røgen, Peter ^b   Paci, Emanuele ^c   Vendruscolo, Michele ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 11844289547     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2004.11.008     Document Type: Article

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