Molecular dynamics guided study of salt bridge length dependence in both fluorinated and non-fluorinated parallel dimeric coiled-coils

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 612-629

  Pendley, Scott S ^a   Yu, Yihua B ^a,b   Cheatham, Thomas E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

5,5,5,5 ,5 , 5 ; Computational chemistry; Free energy of hydration; Hexafluoroleucine; Rotamers; Thermodynamic integration

Indexed keywords

5,5,5,5',5',5' HEXAFLUOROLEUCINE; ARGININE; DIMER; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; LEUCINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5,5,5,5',5',5'-HEXAFLUOROLEUCINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FLUORINATION; GEOMETRY; HYDRATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; THERMODYNAMICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; LEUCINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 59849099656     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22177     Document Type: Article

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