Protein folding simulations: From coarse-grained model to all-atom model

IUBMB Life

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 627-643

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Li, Wenfei ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Qin, Meng ^a   Wu, Lei ^a   Yan, Zhiqiang ^a   Xu, Weixin ^a   Zuo, Guanghong ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Protein folding; Protein structure; Structural biology

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; METAL ION; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN S6; DISULFIDE; EAK 16 IV PEPTIDE; EAK 16-IV PEPTIDE; METAL; PEPTIDE; TENDAMISTATE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ATOM; DISULFIDE BOND; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; HYDROGEN BOND; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHAPERONINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISULFIDES; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6; THERMODYNAMICS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 69449098484     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.223     Document Type: Review

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