Surface binding of alamethicin stabilizes its helical structure: Molecular dynamics simulations

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3186-3191

  Tieleman, D Peter ^a   Berendsen, Herman J C ^a   Sansom, Mark S P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALAMETHICIN; LIPID; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; WATER;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

EID: 0032998180     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77470-9     Document Type: Article

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