| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| ·Why Study Protein Folding? | 第10-11页 |
| ·Current Process of Protein Structure Determination | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Organization of This Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| 2 The Protein Fundamentals and Review on Protein Structure Prediction | 第14-40页 |
| ·The Fundamentals of Proteins | 第14-17页 |
| ·Forces Stabilizing Protein Structure | 第17-21页 |
| ·Levels of Protein Structure | 第21-25页 |
| ·Prediction of Protein Structure | 第25-30页 |
| ·Simplified Model Study of Protein Folding | 第30-33页 |
| ·Misfolding Diseases | 第33-40页 |
| 3 Medium Effects on the Selection of Protein Sequences | 第40-52页 |
| ·Introduction and Motivation | 第40-41页 |
| ·Our Models | 第41-43页 |
| ·The details of our calculation and analysis | 第43-52页 |
| 4 Prion-like Folding behavior in aggregated proteins | 第52-66页 |
| ·Introduction and Motivation | 第52-54页 |
| ·"Toy Brick" Model | 第54-57页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第57-66页 |
| 5 The Role of Secondary Structural Elements in the Selection of Protein Structures | 第66-76页 |
| ·Introduction and Motivation | 第66-68页 |
| ·Models | 第68-69页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第69-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-86页 |
| Appendix The reduction of number of structures by symmetry group | 第86-94页 |
| List of publications and manuscripts | 第94-96页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第96页 |
