Computer simulation of protein folding
Abstract
A new and very simple representation of protein conformations has been used together with energy minimisation and thermalisation to simulate protein folding. Under certain conditions, the method succeeds in `renaturing' bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor from an open-chain conformation into a folded conformation close to that of the native molecule.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- February 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1038/253694a0
- Bibcode:
- 1975Natur.253..694L