An energetic representation of protein architecture that is independent of primary and secondary structure

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1461-1470

  Vertrees, Jason ^a,b,c   Wrabl, James O ^a   Hilser, Vincent J ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b W M Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; WATER;

EID: 70349583051     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.06.020     Document Type: Article

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