Membrane adsorption, folding, insertion and translocation of synthetic trans-membrane peptides

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-257

  Ulmschneider, Martin B ^a   Ulmschneider, Jakob P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Generalized Born; Implicit membrane; KALP peptide; Membrane protein folding; Monte Carlo; WALP peptide

Indexed keywords

KALP16 PEPTIDE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WALP16 PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 42449129998     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: 14645203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687680802020313     Document Type: Article

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