Characterizing the Conformational Landscape of Flavivirus Fusion Peptides via Simulation and Experiment

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Marzinek, Jan K ^a,b   Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani ^c   Goh, Eunice ^c   Huber, Roland G ^b   Panzade, Sadhana ^b   Verma, Chandra ^a,b   Bond, Peter J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; VIRUS FUSION PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLAVIVIRUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLAVIVIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 84955506599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19160     Document Type: Article

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