Multiscale method for simulating protein-DNA complexes

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 527-553

  Villa, Elizabeth ^a   Balaeff, Alexander ^b   Mahadevan, L ^c   Schulten, Klaus ^d  

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

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grained; Elastic rod model of DNA; Gene control; Molecular dynamics; Multiscale; Protein DNA interaction

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEINS;

COARSE-GRAINED; ELASTIC ROD; GENE CONTROL; MULTISCALE; PROTEIN-DNA INTERACTIONS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 18744369718     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040604789     Document Type: Article

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