Conformational fluctuations versus constraints in amino acid side chains: The evolution of information content from free amino acids to proteins

Chemistry and Biodiversity

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-273

  Bojarski, Andrzej J ^a   Nowak, Mateusz ^a   Testa, Bernard ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; LIGAND; MONOMER; NONAPEPTIDE; PROFILIN; TRYPSIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EMBEDDING; ENTROPY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; INFORMATION; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROCESS MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

ACANTHAMOEBA;

EID: 33645573581     PISSN: 16121872     EISSN: 16121880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200690029     Document Type: Article

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