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. 1987 Dec;52(6):1083–1085. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(87)83303-9

Configurational entropy of native proteins.

M Karplus 1, T Ichiye 1, B M Pettitt 1
PMCID: PMC1330109  PMID: 3427197

Abstract

Simulations of the residual configurational entropy of a protein in the native state suggest that it is nearly an order of magnitude larger than the entropy of denaturation. The implications of this result are discussed.

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