A unified coarse-grained model of biological macromolecules based on mean-field multipole–multipole interactions
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A unified coarse-grained model of biological macromolecules based on mean-field multipole–multipole interactions
A unified coarse-grained model of three major classes of biological molecules--proteins, nucleic acids, and polysaccharides--has been developed. It is based on the observations that the repeated units of biopolymers (peptide groups, nucleic acid bases, sugar rings) are highly polar and their charge distributions can be represented crudely as point multipoles. The model is an extension of the un...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Molecular Modeling
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1610-2940,0948-5023
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-014-2306-5