What stabilizes the 3 14-helix in β 3-Peptides? A conformational analysis using molecular simulation

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1677-1690

  Keller, Bettina ^a   Gattin, Zrinka ^b   Van Gunsteren, Wilfred F ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

peptides; Conformational analysis; Molecular dynamics; Mutual information; Peptide folding

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMATION; ENTROPY; HYDROGEN BOND; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 77951236282     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22685     Document Type: Article

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