Thermodynamics and stability of a β-sheet complex: Molecular dynamics simulations on simplified off-lattice protein models

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 40-53

  Jang, Hyunbum ^a   Hall, Carol K ^a   Zhou, Yaoqi ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

sheet complex; Amyloid; Bias gap; Discontinuous molecular dynamics; Fibril; Go type potential; Intermolecular contact parameter

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; ENERGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0347364624     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.03162804     Document Type: Article

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