Ab initio Discrete Molecular Dynamics Approach to Protein Folding and Aggregation

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 412, Issue , 2006, Pages 314-338

  Urbanc, Brigita ^a   Borreguero, Jose M ^a   Cruz, Luis ^a   Stanley, H Eugene ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 33749601705     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)12019-4     Document Type: Review

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