Coordination geometry of nonbonded residues in globular proteins
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Coordination geometry of nonbonded residues in globular proteins.
BACKGROUND Two opposite views have been advanced for the packing of sidechains in globular proteins. The first is the jigsaw puzzle model, in which the complementarity of size and shape is essential. The second, the nuts-and-bolts model, suggests that constraints induced by steric complementarity or pairwise specificity have little influence. Here, the angular distributions of sidechains around...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Folding and Design
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1359-0278
DOI: 10.1016/s1359-0278(96)00051-x