Dynamical studies of peptide motifs in the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite surface protein by restrained and unrestrained MD simulations

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1012-1025

  Nanzer, Alain P ^a   Torda, Andrew E ^b   Bisang, Christian ^c   Weber, Christoph ^c   Robinson, John A ^c   Van Gunsteren, Wilfred F ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Malaria parasite; MD simulation; Plasmodium falciparum; Time averaged restraints; methylproline stabilised type I turn

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ANTIBODY; ASPARAGINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METHYL GROUP; PROLINE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; SPOROZOITE;

EID: 0031564655     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0911     Document Type: Article

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