Protein design depends on the size of the amino acid alphabet

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Ball, Robin C ^a   Fink, Thomas M A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CONFORMATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; HAMILTONIANS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMERS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CORRELATED CONFORMATIONS; FAST-FOLDING PROTEINS; HETEROPOLYMER FUNCTIONS; RANDOM CONFORMATIONS;

PROTEINS;

EID: 41349100648     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.031902     Document Type: Article

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