Parallel tempering simulations of HP-36

被引:85
作者
Lin, CY
Hu, CK
Hansmann, UHE [1 ]
机构
[1] Michigan Technol Univ, Dept Phys, Houghton, MI 49931 USA
[2] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 115, Taiwan
关键词
protein-folding problem; structure prediction; Monte Carlo simulation; implicit solvent;
D O I
10.1002/prot.10351
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We report results from all-atom Monte Carlo simulations of the 36-residue villin headpiece subdomain HP-36. Protein-solvent interactions are approximated by an implicit solvent model. The parallel tempering is used to overcome the problem of slow convergence in low-temperature protein simulations. Our results show that this technique allows one to sample native-like structures of small proteins and points out the need for improved energy functions. (C) 2003Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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页码:436 / 445
页数:10
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