Theory of protein folding

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 70-75

  Onuchic, José Nelson ^a   Wolynes, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENERGY; ENTROPY; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SOLVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 1342281635     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.01.009     Document Type: Review

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