Determining the orientation of protegrin-1 in DLPC bilayers using an implicit solvent-membrane model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Sayyed Ahmad, Abdallah ^a   Kaznessis, Yiannis N ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEGRIN; PROTEGRIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; PROTEGRIN-1; SOLVENT;

AQUEOUS HUMOR FLOW; ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTROPY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLVENTS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SWINE;

EID: 62849091215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004799     Document Type: Article

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