Molecular simulations of polycation-DNA binding exploring the effect of peptide chemistry and sequence in nuclear localization sequence based polycations

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 11988-11999

  Elder, Robert M ^a   Jayaraman, Arthi ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY; DNA BINDING AFFINITY; FREE ENERGY OF BINDING; HYDROPHOBIC AGGREGATIONS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SEQUENCES; PEPTIDE CHEMISTRIES; PEPTIDE SEQUENCES;

ARGININE; BINDING ENERGY; DRUG THERAPY; ENTROPY; GENE TRANSFER; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HYDROPHOBICITY; PEPTIDES;

CONFORMATIONS;

DNA; OLIGOPEPTIDE; POLYAMINE; POLYCATIONS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ENTROPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; POLYAMINES; PROTEIN BINDING; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 84885638721     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp406875a     Document Type: Article

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