RESIDUE SOLVENT ACCESSIBILITIES IN THE UNFOLDED POLYPEPTIDE-CHAIN

被引:20
作者
ZIELENKIEWICZ, P [1 ]
SAENGER, W [1 ]
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[1] FREE UNIV BERLIN,INST KRISTALLOG,W-1000 BERLIN 33,GERMANY
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10.1016/S0006-3495(92)81746-0
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Q6 [生物物理学];
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071011 ;
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The difference of solvent accessibilities in the native and unfolded states of the protein is used as a measure of the hydrophobic contribution to the free energy of folding. We present a new approximation of amino acids solvent accessibilities in the unfolded state based on the 1-ns molecular dynamics simulation of Ala-X-Ala tripeptides at a temperature of 368 K. The standard accessibility values averaged from the molecular dynamics study are significantly lower from those previously obtained by considering only selected conformations of Ala-X-Ala tripeptides.
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