Search for folding initiation sites from amino acid sequence

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 681-691

  Galzitskaya, Oxana V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amyloid fibril; Amyloidogenic regions; Folding nucleus; Protein folding; Protein misfolding; Transition state

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMYLOID; AMYLOID PROTEIN; APOMYOGLOBIN; RIBONUCLEASE A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 51749109104     PISSN: 02197200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021972000800362X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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