Molecular dynamics simulations of β-hairpin folding

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 325-333

  Wang, Hongwu ^a   Varady, Judith ^a,b   Ng, Lily ^a,b   Sung, Shen Shu ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hairpin; Helix; Molecular dynamics; Protein folding; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 0032735468     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19991115)37:3<325::AID-PROT2>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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