Refinement of the AMBER force field for nucleic acids: Improving the description of α/γ conformers

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3817-3829

  Pérez, Alberto ^a,b   Marchán, Iván ^a,b   Svozil, Daniel ^c,e   Sponer, Jiri ^d,e   Cheatham III, Thomas E ^f   Laughton, Charles A ^g   Orozco, Modesto ^a,b,h  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b Barcelona Supercomputing Centre   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^e MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PARAMETER; POPULATION; ROTATION; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 34250318638     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.097782     Document Type: Article

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