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Chai-Yu Lin1, Chin-Kun Hu, Ulrich H E Hansmann
1Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Abstract:
We report results from all-atom Monte Carlo simulations of the 36-residue villin headpiece subdomain HP-36. Protein-solvent interactions are approximated by an implicit solvent model. The parallel tempering is used to overcome the problem of slow convergence in low-temperature protein simulations. Our results show that this technique allows one to sample native-like structures of small proteins and points out the need for improved energy functions.
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