Energy landscape of the prion protein helix 1 probed by metadynamics and NMR

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 158-167

  Camilloni, Carlo ^a   Schaal, Daniel ^b   Schweimer, Kristian ^b   Schwarzinger, Stephan ^b   De Simone, Alfonso ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84855416769     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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