Topological Thermal Instability and Length of Proteins

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 529-535

  Burioni, Raffaella ^a   Cassi, Davide ^a   Cecconi, Fabio ^b   Vulpiani, Angelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gaussian Network Model (GNM); Spectral dimension; Thermal fluctuations; Topological instability

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN NETWORK MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACIDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 2442581510     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20072     Document Type: Article

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