The competition between protein folding and aggregation: Off-lattice minimalist model studies

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-87

  Cellmer, Troy ^a   Bratko, Dusan ^a,b   Prausnitz, John M ^a,c   Blanch, Harvey ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Protein aggregation; Protein refolding

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASES; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS;

LANGEVIN DYNAMICS; MULTI-CHAIN SYSTEMS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CALCULATION; CELL INCLUSION; CHEMICAL BOND; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARAMETER; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 12144266516     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.20302     Document Type: Article

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