The Role of Aspherical Protein Shape: Dynamic Simulation of Ellipsoids

It was recently discovered that proteins, as well as their constituent amino acids, have aspect ratios that distribute around a value close to the Golden ratio, φ ≈ 1.618. In addition, it has long been known that proteins have an aspherical shape. However, reasons for evolution to favour such a shap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marples, Callum
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59370/