Shorter side chains optimize helix-helix packing

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1426-1429

  Jiang, Sulin ^a   Vakser, Ilya A ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Docking; Protein folding; Protein modeling; Secondary structure packing; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMINO ACIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 1942473116     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.03505804     Document Type: Article

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