Anomalies in the vibrational dynamics of proteins are a consequence of fractal-like structure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 13696-13700

  Reuveni, Shlomi ^a   Granek, Rony ^b   Klafter, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Gaussian network model; Intramolecular distance distributions; Mean first passage time; Protein dynamics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

DIFFUSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; VIBRATION;

EID: 77956363480     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002018107     Document Type: Article

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