The introduction of hydrogen bond and hydrophobicity effects into the rotational isomeric states model for conformational analysis of unfolded peptides

Physical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Engin, Ozge ^a   Sayar, Mehmet ^a   Erman, Burak ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DIPEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PENTAPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; TRIPEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOMERISM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 60849091381     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/6/1/016001     Document Type: Article

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