Computational sidechain placement and protein mutagenesis with implicit solvent models

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 853-867

  Lopes, Anne ^a   Alexandrov, Alexey ^a   Bathelt, Christine ^a   Archontis, Georgios ^b   Simonson, Thomas ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE BIOCHIMIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Generalized Born; Mean field; Poisson equation; Protein design; Solvation; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 34248586877     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21379     Document Type: Article

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