Computer simulations of protein folding by targeted molecular dynamics

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 252-260

  Ferrara, Philippe ^a   Apostolakis, Joannis ^a,b   Caflisch, Amedeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chymotrypsin inhibitor 2; Implicit solvation model; Molecular dynamics simulation; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ONCOGENE PROTEIN P21(RAS); PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034657550     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(20000515)39:3<252::AID-PROT80>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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