Charged termini on the Trp-Cage roughen the folding energy landscape

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 119, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7874-7881

  English, Charles A ^a   García, Angel E ^a  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHEDRAL ANGLE; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENERGY DIFFERENCES; EQUILIBRATION TIME; FOLDING INTERMEDIATES; LOWER TEMPERATURES; META-STABLE STATE; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE; REPLICA-EXCHANGE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; TRP-CAGE PROTEINS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

PEPTIDE; TRP-CAGE PEPTIDE;

CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84933059399     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b02040     Document Type: Article

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