Trimethylamine N-oxide influence on the backbone of proteins: An oligoglycine model

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 695-704

  Hu, Char Y ^a,b   Lynch, Gillian C ^b   Kokubo, Hironori ^b   Montgomery Pettitt, B ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Osmolyte; Protein folding; Solvation

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; OLIGOMER; PEPTIDE; SOLVENT; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE; WATER; METHYLAMINE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; TRIMETHYLOXAMINE;

ARTICLE; FORCE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GLYCINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; METHYLAMINES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 77949878597     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22598     Document Type: Article

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