Discrete-continuous duality of protein structure space

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-328

  Sadreyev, Ruslan I ^a   Kim, Bong Hyun ^b   Grishin, Nick V ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; ENOLASE; FLAVOPROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MYOGLOBIN; TRYPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPUTER MODEL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 66549094316     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.04.009     Document Type: Review

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