Modeling protonation equilibria in biological macromolecules

Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 261-284

  Khandogin, Jana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular dynamics; pH dependent conformational change; pKa; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073149559     PISSN: 25424491     EISSN: 25424483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9956-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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