Analysis of the "thermodynamic information content" of a Homo sapiens structural database reveals hierarchical thermodynamic organization

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1787-1801

  Larson, Scott A ^a   Hilser, Vincent J ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Fold recognition; Native state ensemble; Position specific thermodynamics; Protein stability; Protein structure prediction; Sequential cooperative segments

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; ENERGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 3042572569     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.04706204     Document Type: Article

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