All-atom and coarse-grained simulations of the forced unfolding pathways of the SNARE complex

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1376-1386

  Zheng, Wenjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grained model; Dynamics; Elastic network model; Go model; Helix bundle; Membrane fusion; SNARE; Steered molecular dynamics; Unfolding pathway; Unzipping; Zippering

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SNARE PROTEIN; SOLVENT; SYNAPTOBREVIN 2; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOM; CONFORMATION; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SIMULATION; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SNARE PROTEINS;

EID: 84902107602     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24505     Document Type: Article

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