Exhaustive Metropolis Monte Carlo sampling and analysis of polyalanine conformations adopted under the influence of hydrogen bonds

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 94-104

  Podtelezhnikov, Alexei A ^a   Wild, David L ^a  

^a KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

helix; bulge; 3 10 helix; Helix coil transition; Loop closure; Parallel tempering; Polypeptide; Rebridging

Indexed keywords

ALANINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 24344500805     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20513     Document Type: Article

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