Study on the characters of different types of amino-acid networks and their relations with protein folding

Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 762-768

  Yan, Li Cheng ^a   Su, Ji Guo ^a   Chen, Wei Zu ^a,b   Wang, Cun Xin ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acid network; Assortativity coefficient; Clustering coefficient; Hydrophobic interaction; Rate of folding

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958457581     PISSN: 10003282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1206.2009.00760     Document Type: Article

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