Folding free-energy landscape of a 10-residue mini-protein, chignolin

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3422-3426

  Satoh, Daisuke ^a   Shimizu, Kentaro ^a   Nakamura, Shugo ^a   Terada, Tohru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hairpin; Chignolin; Folding simulation; Generalized Born model; Molecular dynamics; Multicanonical

Indexed keywords

CHIGNOLIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 33646947896     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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