Interactions of Hydrophobic Peptides with Lipid Bilayers: Monte Carlo Simulations with M2δ

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3431-3444

  Kessel, Amit ^a   Shental Bechor, Dalit ^a   Haliloglu, Turkan ^b   Ben Tal, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PROTEIN; PROTEIN M2 DELTA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE; MICELLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0344551149     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74765-1     Document Type: Article

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