Simulation of peptide folding with explicit water - A mean solvation method

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 295-302

  Wu, Xiong Wu ^a   Sung, Shen Shu ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Conformational search; Mean solvation force; Molecular dynamics; Monte Carlo method; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; SOLVENT; WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLVATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPEPTIDES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; WATER;

EID: 0033557366     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19990215)34:3<295::AID-PROT3>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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