Kinetics of peptide folding: Computer simulations of SYPFDV and peptide variants in water

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 272, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 423-442

  Mohanty, Debasisa ^a   Elber, Ron ^a   Thirumalai, Devarajan ^b   Beglov, Dimitrii ^c   Roux, Benoit ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Institute for Physical Science and Technology   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Folding; Linear peptides; Locally enhanced sampling; Molecular dynamics; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

EID: 0031587288     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1246     Document Type: Article

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