A crumpled surface having transverse attractive interactions as a simplified model with biological significance

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 331-339

  Cassia Moura, R ^a,c   Gomes, M A F ^b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crumpled surface; Fractal dimension; Membrane model; Protein folding; Short range attractive force

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; ELASTICITY; FRACTALS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PAPER; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 29244440706     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.05.015     Document Type: Article

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