Scrutiny of chain-length and N-terminal effects in α-helix folding: a molecular dynamics study on polyalanine peptides

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1923-1935

  Goyal, Bhupesh ^a,b   Kumar, Anil ^a,c   Srivastava, Kinshuk Raj ^a,d   Durani, Susheel ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB WORLD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrostatics of peptides; molecular dynamics simulations; polyalanine; protein folding; protein stereochemistry

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; POLYALANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SOLVENT;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CALCULATION; DIASTEREOISOMER; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION, ALPHA-HELICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLVENTS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84979084543     PISSN: 07391102     EISSN: 15380254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2016.1199972     Document Type: Article

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