A chirality index for investigating protein secondary structures and their time evolution

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 667-677

  Pietropaolo, Adriana ^a   Muccioli, Luca ^a   Berardi, Roberto ^a   Zannoni, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DSSP; Folding; Hemoglobin; Molecular dynamics; Polyproline

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN; WATER;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROGEN BONDING; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 38549180622     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21578     Document Type: Article

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