Foldons as independently folding units of proteins

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 107, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 312-315

  Panchenko, Anna R ^a   Luthey Schulten, Zaida ^a   Wolynes, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Configurational entropy; Exons; Folding domains; Protein folding; Structural domains

Indexed keywords

EID: 22244461184     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00098-5     Document Type: Article

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