Conformational flexibility of N-glycans in solution studied by REMD simulations

Biophysical Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 179-187

  Re, Suyong ^a   Nishima, Wataru ^a   Miyashita, Naoyuki ^a   Sugita, Yuji ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Computational Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformational flexibility; Conformer selection; Molecular dynamics simulations; N glycan; N glycan modifications; Protein glycan interactions; Replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873146416     PISSN: 18672450     EISSN: 18672469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-012-0090-y     Document Type: Review

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