Interaction between a twelve-residue segment of antifreeze protein type I, or its mutants, and water molecules

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-325

  Nobekawa, Takashi ^a   Taniguchi, Hiromi ^a   Hagiwara, Yoshimichi ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angular distribution function; Antifreeze protein type I; Segments; Serine mutant; Valine mutant

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; DYNAMICS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PROTEINS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

ALANINE RESIDUES; ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN (AFP); ASPARAGINE RESIDUES; HYDROPHILIC SITES; HYDROPHOBIC HYDRATION; MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS (MD) SIMULATIONS; RIGID SEGMENTS; SERINE RESIDUES; THREONINE RESIDUES; WATER MOLECULES;

MOLECULES;

EID: 45849101724     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927020701830219     Document Type: Article

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