Explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations of chaperonin-assisted rhodanese folding

Particuology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 220-224

  Ren, Ying ^a,b   Gao, Jian ^a   Xu, Ji ^a,b   Ge, Wei ^a   Li, Jinghai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chaperonin assisted; Explicit solvent; Molecular chaperonin; Molecular dynamics simulation; Protein folding; Rhodanese

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN-ASSISTED; EXPLICIT SOLVENT; MOLECULAR CHAPERONIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; RHODANESE;

DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; SOLVENTS;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 67349084347     PISSN: 16742001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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