Protein Functional Motions: Basic Concepts and Computational Methodologies

  1. Tamiki Komatsuzaki4,5,
  2. R. Stephen Berry6,
  3. David M. Leitner7
  1. Sotaro Fuchigami1,
  2. Hiroshi Fujisaki2,3,
  3. Yasuhiro Matsunaga2,
  4. Akinori Kidera1,2

Published Online: 5 JUL 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781118087817.ch2

Advancing Theory for Kinetics and Dynamics of Complex, Many-Dimensional Systems: Clusters and Proteins: Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 145

Advancing Theory for Kinetics and Dynamics of Complex, Many-Dimensional Systems: Clusters and Proteins: Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 145

How to Cite

Fuchigami, S., Fujisaki, H., Matsunaga, Y. and Kidera, A. (2011) Protein Functional Motions: Basic Concepts and Computational Methodologies, in Advancing Theory for Kinetics and Dynamics of Complex, Many-Dimensional Systems: Clusters and Proteins: Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 145 (eds T. Komatsuzaki, R. S. Berry and D. M. Leitner), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi: 10.1002/9781118087817.ch2

Editor Information

  1. 4

    Molecule&Life Nonlinear Sciences Laboratory, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 20 Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan

  2. 5

    Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan

  3. 6

    Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

  4. 7

    Department of Chemistry and Chemical Physics Program, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0216, USA

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Supramolecular Biology, Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan

  2. 2

    Molecular Scale Team, Integrated Simulation of Living Matter Group, Computational Science Research Program, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

  3. 3

    Department of Physics, Nippon Medical School, 2-297-2 Kosugi-cho, Nakahara, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-0063, Japan

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 5 JUL 2011
  2. Published Print: 19 SEP 2011

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780470643716

Online ISBN: 9781118087817

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Keywords:

  • protein functional motions - basic concepts and computational methodologies;
  • equilibrium dynamics of proteins - concepts, underlying protein functional motions;
  • nonequilibrium dynamics of proteins - protein function, transition to another equilibrium state

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Experiments on Protein Dynamics

  • Equilibrium Dynamics of Proteins

  • Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Proteins

  • Concluding Remarks

  • Acknowledgments

  • References