Estimation of protein folding rate from Monte Carlo simulations and entropy capacity

Current Protein and Peptide Science

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 523-537

  Galzitskaya, Oxana V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Compactness; Entropy capacity; Radius of cross section; Structural class; Two state and multi state kinetics

Indexed keywords

FERREDOXIN;

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ENTROPY; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79251474677     PISSN: 13892037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920310794109175     Document Type: Article

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