A protein folding potential that places the native states of a largenumberof proteins near a local minimum

BMC Structural Biology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-11

  Chhajer, Mukesh ^a   Crippen, Gordon M ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoys; Local minimum; Pairwise interaction energy function; Solvation energy function

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; PROTEIN; SERINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLVATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34248328316     PISSN: 14726807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-2-1     Document Type: Article

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