Kirkwood-Buff Approach Rescues Overcollapse of a Disordered Protein in Canonical Protein Force Fields

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 119, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7975-7984

  Mercadante, Davide ^a,b   Milles, Sigrid ^d   Fuertes, Gustavo ^c,d   Svergun, Dmitri I ^c   Lemke, Edward A ^d   Gräter, Frauke ^a,b  

^a HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; X RAY SCATTERING;

CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS; CONFORMATIONAL ENSEMBLE; DISORDERED PROTEINS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; SINGLE-MOLECULE FRETS; WATER PARAMETERS;

PROTEINS;

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; NUCLEOPORIN; NUP153 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; WATER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SOLUTIONS; WATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84933056911     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b03440     Document Type: Article

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