Compactness determines protein folding type

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 667-680

  Galzitskaya, Oxana V ^a   Bogatyreva, Natalyya S ^a   Ivankov, Dmitry N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Compactness; Multi state kinetics; Protein packing; Sphericity; Structural class; Two state kinetics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

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

EID: 51749115525     PISSN: 02197200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219720008003618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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