Theoretical-computational modelling of infrared spectra in peptides and proteins: a new frontier for combined theoretical-experimental investigations

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-161

  Amadei, Andrea ^a   Daidone, Isabella ^b   Di Nola, Alfredo ^c   Aschi, Massimiliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 77951298242     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2010.01.001     Document Type: Review

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