Local Backbone Preferences and Nearest-Neighbor Effects in the Unfolded and Native States

Protein and Peptide Folding, Misfolding, and Non-Folding

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 79-98

  Debartolo, Joe ^a   Jha, Abhishek ^b   Freed, Karl F ^a   Sosnick, Tobin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding pathways, in structure prediction; Nearest neighbor effects, in unfolded states; Secondary structure propensities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876207888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118183373.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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