Investigations into sequence and conformational dependence of backbone entropy, inter-basin dynamics and the flory isolated-pair hypothesis for peptides

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 331, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 693-711

  Zaman, Muhammad H ^a,b   Shen, Min Yi ^a,c   Berry, R Stephen ^a,c   Freed, Karl F ^a,c   Sosnick, Tobin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Backbone conformational entropy; Langevin dynamics; Protein folding; Ramachandran plot; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MONOMER; PEPTIDE; PROLINE DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENTROPY; FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0042701995     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00765-4     Document Type: Article

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