A free-energy approach for all-atom protein simulation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3483-3494

  Verma, Abhinav ^a   Wenzel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; ATOM; BETA CHAIN; BETA SHEET; BIOPHYSICS; ENERGY; FORCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 67650354848     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.3921     Document Type: Article

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