ψ-Constrained Simulations of Protein Folding Transition States: Implications for Calculating ϕ

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 386, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 920-928

  Baxa, Michael C ^a,b   Freed, Karl F ^a,c   Sosnick, Tobin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Langevin dynamics; metal binding; phi analysis; psi analysis

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 60149100982     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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