Large-scale chirality measures and general symmetry deficiency measures for functional group polyhedra of proteins

Journal of Mathematical Chemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-153

  Wang, Lijie ^a   Wang, Liqin ^b   Arimoto, Shigeru ^c   Mezey, Paul G ^a,d  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biochemical function and activity; Functional groups; Macromolecular chirality measures; Polyhedral models; Protein symmetry deficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747842259     PISSN: 02599791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10910-005-9019-z     Document Type: Review

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