Free Energy Determinants of Secondary Structure Formation: I. α-Helices

• 22 September 1995
• journal article
• research article
• Published by Elsevier in Journal of Molecular Biology
• Vol. 252  (3) , 351-365
• https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1995.0502

Abstract

Keywords

• PROTEIN STABILITY
• HELIX-COIL TRANSITION
• CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY
• HYDROGEN BONDING
• Α-HELIX PROPENSITY
• FINITE DIFFERENCE
• STRUCTURE FORMATION
• ROOM TEMPERATURE
• SECONDARY STRUCTURE
• HYDROGEN BOND
• SOLVENT EFFECT
• POISSON BOLTZMANN
• DIHEDRAL ANGLE
• FREE ENERGY
• VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION