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The description at at. level of protein folding is an ambitious goal in biophysics, particularly because of the difficulty in obtaining structural information on unfolded states. Computer simulations can contribute in achieving this goal. Here we report th ...
The cyclic undecapeptide cyclosporin A (CsA) has a remarkable spectrum of diverse biological activities, including anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antiparasitic as well as immunosuppressive activities. However, the low water solubility of this drug is a ser ...
Mol. dynamics simulations (MDS) of the structural rearrangements on the pathway leading to procaspase 3 (I) activation are presented. A retrostructural approach was used to build I from mature caspase 3 (II). The peptide bond that was cleaved during enzyme ...
In the absence of a detailed knowledge of the folding mechanism of natural proteins, the general design of polypeptide sequences with a high propensity to fold into a predetermined three dimensional structure still appears to be out of reach. The concept o ...
SCI is a prominent, 170,000 Mr, non-histone protein of HeLa metaphase chromosomes. This protein binds DNA and was previously identified as one of the major structural components of the residual scaffold structure obtained by differential protein extraction ...
By means of Raman and photoluminescence measurements we have studied the effect of strain and confinement on the optical phonon spectrum of single InAs quantum wells. The frequency region of longitudinal optical phonons confined in both the InAs well and I ...
The novel fast-growth or multiple steering mol. dynamics (MSMD) technique has been recently developed by Jarzynski to calc. free energy profiles along general transformation pathways (Phys. Rev. Lett. 1997, 78, 2690-2693; Phys. Rev. E 1997, 56, 5018-5035). ...
A review with 37 refs. In the present review, various attempts to apply synthetic tools for inducing native-like structural features in peptides in order to bypass the folding problem are described. Besides well-established methods for the nucleation and s ...
