Association of helical β-peptides and their aggregation behavior from the potential of mean force in explicit solvent

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4349-4362

  Miller, Clark A ^a   Gellman, Samuel H ^b   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a   De Pablo, Juan J ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; SOLVENT; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PEPTIDES; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SOLVENTS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 68949114164     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.11.076     Document Type: Article

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