Protein folding as an evolutionary process

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 851-862

  Sharma, Vivek ^a   Kaila, Ville R I ^a   Annila, Arto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dissipation; Energy landscape; Entropy; Evolution; Kinetics; Natural process; Natural selection; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENTROPY; ENZYME KINETICS; FREE ENERGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE; NATURAL PROCESS; NATURAL SELECTION; STRUCTURAL HIERARCHIES;

PROTEINS;

EID: 58149356954     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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