Radius of gyration as an indicator of protein structure compactness

Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 623-628

  Lobanov, M Yu ^a   Bogatyreva, N S ^a   Galzitskaya, O V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

All or none simple folding mechanism; Compactness; Complex folding mechanism with accumulation of intermediate state; Contact density; Structural class of proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549109406     PISSN: 00268933     EISSN: 16083245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0026893308040195     Document Type: Article

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