Statistics of knots, geometry of conformations, and evolution of proteins.

Like shoelaces, the backbones of proteins may get entangled and form knots. However, only a few knots in native proteins have been identified so far. To more quantitatively assess the rarity of knots in proteins, we make an explicit comparison between the knotting probabilities in native proteins an...

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Main Authors: Rhonald C Lua, Alexander Y Grosberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1463020?pdf=render