Solvent-induced organization: A physical model of folding myoglobin
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Solvent-induced organization: a physical model of folding myoglobin.
The essential features of the in vitro refolding of myoglobin are expressed in a solvable physical model. Alpha helices are taken as the fundamental collective coordinates of the system, while the refolding is assumed to be mainly driven by solvent-induced hydrophobic forces. A quantitative model of these forces is developed and compared with experimental and theoretical results. The model is t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0887-3585,1097-0134
DOI: 10.1002/prot.340200203