Characterization of the Amino Acid Contribution to the Folding Degree of Proteins

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 727-737

  Estrada, Ernesto ^a,b  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Graph theory; Protein similarity; Secondary structure; Spectral moments; Thermal expansion

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LYSOZYME; RIBONUCLEASE A;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CHEMICAL BOND; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MURAMIDASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1542346456     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10609     Document Type: Article

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