Energy landscape of a small peptide revealed by dihedral angle principal component analysis

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-52

  Mu, Yuguang ^a,b   Nguyen, Phuong H ^a   Stock, Gerhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Folding; Helix nucleation; Internal motion; Pathways

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 10844292652     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20310     Document Type: Article

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