What protein folding teaches us about biological function and molecular machines

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-62

  Whitford, Paul C ^a   Onuchic, José N ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TRANSFER RNA; MACROMOLECULE;

CALCULATION; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REVIEW; RNA FOLDING; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM;

DIFFUSION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84920140834     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.12.003     Document Type: Review

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