Physics of proteins

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 261-280

  Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   Maritan, Amos ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Geometry; Marginally compact phase; Symmetry; Tube

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; EVOLUTION; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34347206296     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.36.040306.132808     Document Type: Review

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