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SUBMITTER: Dutta Chowdhury S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6644842 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dutta Chowdhury Saikat S Lahiri Ansuman A
ACS omega 20171017 10
Systemin, an 18 amino-acid-signaling peptide, was the first plant polypeptide hormone to be discovered. Earlier structural studies involving NMR spectroscopy indicated a lack of definite structure in solution while circular dichroism spectroscopy suggested the presence of left-handed polyproline II (PPII) conformation. Here, we report the results of molecular dynamics simulations of the peptide in explicit solvent with two different force fields, namely, ff99SBildn and ff99IDPs, both of which sh ...[more]