Elucidating protein thermodynamics from the three-dimensional structure of the native state using network rigidity

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 903-915

  Jacobs, Donald J ^a   Dallakyan, Sargis ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COVALENT BOND; CURVE FITTING; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; FORCE; HEATING; HYDROGEN BOND; MECHANICS; MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PH; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIGIDITY; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

UBIQUITIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 21244483843     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.048496     Document Type: Article

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