The protein folding problem

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2008, Pages 289-316

  Dill, Ken A ^a   Ozkan, S Banu ^b   Shell, M Scott ^c   Weikl, Thomas R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

CASP; Folding code; Folding kinetics; Funnel energy landscapes; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; KINETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENTROPY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION CURRENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 48249134448     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.37.092707.153558     Document Type: Review

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