Protein structures and optimal folding from a geometrical variational principle

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3372-3375

  Micheletti, Cristian ^a,b   Banavar, Jayanth R ^c   Maritan, Amos ^a,b   Seno, Flavio ^d  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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EID: 18344391877     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3372     Document Type: Article

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