Heterogeneous Folding of the trpzip Hairpin: Full Atom Simulation and Experiment

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 241-251

  Yang, Wei Yuan ^a   Pitera, Jed W ^b   Swope, William C ^b   Gruebele, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy landscape; Hairpin; Molecular dynamics; Thermal unfolding

Indexed keywords

BETA HAIRPIN TRPZIP2; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROSCOPY; STIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 0347130904     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.11.033     Document Type: Article

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