Small-world view of the amino acids that play a key role in protein folding

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

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Vendruscolo, M ^a   Dokholyan, N V ^b   Paci, E ^a,c   Karplus, M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOLDINGS; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; RANDOM EDGES; TRANSITION STATES;

AMINO ACIDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONDENSATION; GRAPH THEORY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION;

PROTEINS;

EID: 41349118690     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.061910     Document Type: Article

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