Convergence and Sampling in Determining Free Energy Landscapes for Membrane Protein Association

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 121, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 3364-3375

  Domański, Jan ^a,b   Hedger, George ^a   Best, Robert B ^b   Stansfeld, Phillip J ^a   Sansom, Mark S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; DIMERIZATION; FREE ENERGY; PROTEINS;

COARSE-GRAINED FORCE FIELDS; FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE; INTERMOLECULAR DISTANCE; NEAR-NATIVE CONFORMATIONS; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE; PROTEIN-PROTEIN ASSOCIATIONS; TRANS-MEMBRANE DOMAINS; TRANSMEMBRANE HELICES;

BINDING ENERGY;

LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

CHEMISTRY; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

LIPID BILAYERS; LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 85020191347     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b08445     Document Type: Article

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