Molecular dynamics of some pentapeptides having a strong tendency to helical conformation

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-380

  Huang, Zhuo Ran ^a   Zhu, Tong Yang ^a   Wang, Ting Ting ^a,b   Wang, Xiao Ning ^a   Yang, Jie ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding models; Molecular dynamics; Symmetrical motifs

Indexed keywords

OLIGOPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 77949976148     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986610790780369     Document Type: Article

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