Non-bulk-like solvent behavior in the ribosome exit tunnel

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Lucent, Del ^a   Snow, Christopher D ^a   Aitken, Colin Echeverría ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; BIO-MOLECULAR; BOUND MOLECULES; BULK-LIKE; DIELECTRIC FLUID; MOLECULAR PROCESS; NASCENT PROTEIN; NATURE OF WATER; SYNTHESISED; THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS;

SOLVENTS;

SOLVENT; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DIFFUSION; DRUG BINDING; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME EXIT TUNNEL; ROTATION; SOLVATION; THERMODYNAMICS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RIBOSOMES; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 78349275327     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000963     Document Type: Article

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