Computer Simulation Study of  Biopolymer Betanova

Seung-Yeon Kim

doi:10.4236/msce.2015.312002

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Computer Simulation Study of Biopolymer Betanova ()

Seung-Yeon Kim

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungju, Republic of Korea.

DOI: 10.4236/msce.2015.312002 PDF HTML XML 2,311 Downloads 2,646 Views

Abstract

Betanova is a monomeric, three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet protein with twenty residues. The pathways between the folded native structure and unfolded conformations of betanova are studied using UNRES force field and the most popular computer simulation method, Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm. At a fixed temperature, 100 Monte Carlo simulations are performed, starting from the folded native structure, and the pathways are obtained at two different temperatures.

Keywords

Keywords Biopolymer, Protein, Monte Carlo Simulation

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Kim, S. (2015) Computer Simulation Study of Biopolymer Betanova. Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, 3, 8-11. doi: 10.4236/msce.2015.312002.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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