Free energy landscape of protein folding in water: Explicit vs. implicit solvent

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 148-161

  Zhou, Ruhong ^a,b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Explicit vs. implicit solvent; Free energy landscape; GB models; Protein folding; Salt bridge effect

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN G; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY; GENERALIZED BORN CONTINUUM SOLVENT MODEL; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION; SOLVENT EFFECT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0141704162     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10483     Document Type: Article

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