Study of the villin headpiece folding dynamics by combining coarse-grained Monte Carlo evolution and all-atom molecular dynamics

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 459-471

  De Mori, Giacomo M S ^a   Colombo, Giorgio ^a   Micheletti, Cristian ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conformational search; Molecular dynamics; Monte Carlo; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

VILLIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CHICKENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEOMICS; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 11344285181     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20313     Document Type: Article

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