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Entropic Landscape: the method to predict folding patterns and regional stability of proteins
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Entropic Landscape: the method to predict folding patterns and regional stability of proteins

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I propose a new method to calculate the entropy of a given protein sequence fragment. The set of fragment entropies over all possible fragments of the given sequence shows which region of the sequence is statistically stable and which region has a strong desire to fold into particular conformations. Here are three methods to calculate fragment entropy, the results from each of which represent entropies of different stage of protein folding.

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Onizuka, K. Entropic Landscape: the method to predict folding patterns and regional stability of proteins. Nat Prec (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.2972.1

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  • protein stability
  • folding pathways
  • Folding protein
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