Early events in the folding of an amphipathic peptide: A multinanosecond molecular dynamics study

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-399

  Chipot, Christophe ^a   Maigret, Bernard ^a   Pohorille, Andrew ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphipathic peptides; Aqueous interfaces; Free energy calculations; Molecular dynamics simulations; Peptide folding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; GLUTAMINE; HEXANES; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; LEUCINE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 0032790341     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19990901)36:4<383::AID-PROT2>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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