Disordered flanks prevent peptide aggregation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Abeln, Sanne ^a   Frenkel, Daan ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; FREE ENERGY;

BINDING FREE ENERGY; BINDING MOTIF; COARSE-GRAINED; CONDITION; DISORDERED REGIONS; EUKARYOTIC PROTEINS; HYDROPHOBIC PEPTIDES; PEPTIDE AGGREGATION; PEPTIDE SEQUENCES; SMALL MICELLES;

PEPTIDES;

DETERGENT; DNA; MONOMER; PEPTIDE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTROPY; HYPOTHESIS; MICELLE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTA;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 58149147308     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000241     Document Type: Article

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