Empirical modifications to the Amber/OPLS potential for predicting the solution conformations of cyclic peptides by vacuum calculations

Folding and Design

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 379-388

  Keasar, Chen ^a   Rosenfeld, Rakefet ^a  

^a Peptor Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cyclic peptides; Empirical potential; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYCLOPEPTIDE; HYDROGEN; PROLINE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CALCULATION; ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

EID: 0031757623     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(98)00051-0     Document Type: Article

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