Energy functions for protein design I: Efficient and accurate continuum electrostatics and solvation

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 925-936

  Pokala, Navin ^a   Handel, Tracy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EGAD; Electrostatics; Generalized Born; pKa; Protein design; Solvation; Solvent accessible surface area calculation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ELECTROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; WETTABILITY;

EID: 1842454839     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.03486104     Document Type: Article

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