Using DelPhi capabilities to mimic protein's conformational reorganization with amino acid specific dielectric constants

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-30

  Wang, Lin ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a   Rocchia, Walter ^b   Alexov, Emil ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DelPhi; Dielectric constant; Energy calculations; Poisson Boltzmann equation; Protein electrostatics; Protein flexibility; Single point mutations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866321657     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.300611.120911s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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