In silico measurements of twist and bend moduli for β-solenoid protein self-assembly units

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3035-3040

  Heinz, Leonard P ^a   Ravikumar, Krishnakumar M ^a   Cox, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

amyloid fibrils; flexural rigidity; molecular dynamics; nanowires; persistence length; torsional rigidity; solenoid proteins

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOWIRES; RIGIDITY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLENOIDS;

AMYLOID FIBRIL; BIOMATERIALS APPLICATIONS; FLEXURAL RIGIDITIES; NANOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE; POTENTIALS OF MEAN FORCES; TORSIONAL RIGIDITY;

PROTEINS;

AMYLOID; PROTEIN;

ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

AMYLOID; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84929173151     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl5049719     Document Type: Article

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