Probing the nanosecond dynamics of a designed three-stranded beta-sheet with a massively parallel molecular dynamics simulation

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1013-1030

  Voelz, Vincent A ^a   Luttmann, Edgar ^a   Bowman, Gregory R ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Designed betasheet proteins; Downhill folding; DPDP; DPDP II; Ultrafast folding

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

DESIGNED BETA-SHEET PROTEINS; DOWNHILL FOLDING; DPDP; DPDP-II; ULTRAFAST FOLDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; KINETICS; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63449092567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms10031013     Document Type: Article

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