The Unfolded State of the Villin Headpiece Helical Subdomain: Computational Studies of the Role of Locally Stabilized Structure

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 360, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1094-1107

  Wickstrom, Lauren ^a   Okur, Asim ^a   Song, Kun ^a   Hornak, Viktor ^a   Raleigh, Daniel P ^a   Simmerling, Carlos L ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

denatured state; molecular dynamics; protein folding; replica exchange; villin headpiece

Indexed keywords

HEADPIECE HELICAL 36 PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VILLIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33745932337     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.04.070     Document Type: Article

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