Acidic range titration of HEWL using a constant-pH molecular dynamics method

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 289-298

  Machuqueiro, Miguel ^a   Baptista, António M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dielectric constant; Lysozyme; Monte Carlo; pKa; Poisson Boltzmann; Simulation; Stability; Tautomer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENATURATION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRICITY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TITRIMETRY;

ACIDS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHICKENS; ELECTROSTATICS; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURAMIDASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 44949173075     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21923     Document Type: Article

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