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SUBMITTER: Paci E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1302383 | biostudies-other | 2002 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Paci Emanuele E Vendruscolo Michele M Karplus Martin M
Biophysical journal 20021201 6
Do Gō-type model potentials provide a valid approach for studying protein folding? They have been widely used for this purpose because of their simplicity and the speed of simulations based on their use. The essential assumption in such models is that only contact interactions existing in the native state determine the energy surface of a polypeptide chain, even for non-native configurations sampled along folding trajectories. Here we use an all-atom molecular mechanics energy function to invest ...[more]