Helix propensities calcualtions for amino acids in alanine based peptides using Jarzynski's equality

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1302-1310

  Echeverria, Ignacia ^a   Mario Amzel, L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy calculations; Helix propensities; Jarzynski's equality; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77951224969     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22649     Document Type: Article

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