Interplay of secondary structures and side-chain contacts in the denatured state of BBA1

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2412-2421

  Wen, Edward Z ^a   Luo, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; HYDROPHOBIC CONTACTS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; SALT BRIDGES; SOLVATION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SOLVENTS;

PROTEINS;

BBA1 PROTEIN, SYNTHETIC; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TIME;

BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES, SYNTHETIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4043074044     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1768151     Document Type: Article

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