Methods for calculating the entropy and free energy and their application to problems involving protein flexibility and ligand binding

Current Protein and Peptide Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-243

  Meirovitch, Hagai ^a   Cheluvaraja, Srinath ^a   White, Ronald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS; ANIMAL; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING;

LIGAND; PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; ENTROPY; HUMANS; LIGANDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 69449086187     PISSN: 13892037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920309788452209     Document Type: Review

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