Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7207875 | Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials | 2016 | 24 Pages |
Abstract
- MD simulations were used to characterize stiffness of amino acid sequences.
- Repetitive motif sequence and order of amino acid strongly influence chain stiffness.
- Certain repeat motifs favor bent structure conformations with low stiffness.
- Intramolecular hydrogen bonds may help maintain bent conformation.
- The amino acid sequence corresponding to resilin has very low stiffness.
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Authors
Md Shahriar K. Khandaker, Daniel M. Dudek, Eric P. Beers, David A. Dillard, David R. Bevan,