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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2011

Intermediates in the protein folding process: a computational model.

Irena Roterman, Leszek Konieczny, Mateusz Banach, Wiktor Jurkowski

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Irena RotermanDepartment of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Lazarza 16, 31-530 Krakow, Poland; E-Mail: mateusz.banach@uj.edu.pl.
Leszek Konieczny
Mateusz Banach
Wiktor Jurkowski

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Abstract

The paper presents a model for simulating the protein folding process in silico. The two-step model (which consists of the early stage-ES and the late stage-LS) is verified using two proteins, one of which is treated (according to experimental observations) as the early stage and the second as an example of the LS step. The early stage is based solely on backbone structural preferences, while the LS model takes into account the water environment, treated as an external hydrophobic force field and represented by a 3D Gauss function. The characteristics of 1ZTR (the ES intermediate, as compared with 1ENH, which is the LS intermediate) confirm the link between the gradual disappearance of ES characteristics in LS structural forms and the simultaneous emergence of LS properties in the 1ENH protein. Positive verification of ES and LS characteristics in these two proteins (1ZTR and 1ENH respectively) suggest potential applicability of the presented model to in silico protein folding simulations.

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Models, MolecularProtein FoldingAlgorithmsComputer SimulationHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsProtein ConformationProteinsProteinsdivergence entropyhydrophobicityintermediates in protein foldingprotein structure

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PMID21954329
PMCPMC3179136

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