Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7207875 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 2016 24 Pages PDF
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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