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Molecular simulations of porphyrins and heme proteins

✍ Scribed by John A. Shelnutt

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 56 KB
Volume: 04
Category: Article
ISSN: 1088-4246
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1409(200006/07)4:4<386::aid-jpp241>3.0.co;2-j

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✦ Synopsis

An overview of the use of classical mechanical molecular simulations of porphyrins, hydroporphyrins and heme proteins is given. The topics cover molecular mechanics calculations of structures and conformer energies of porphyrins, energies of barriers for interconversion between stable conformers, molecular dynamics of porphyrins and heme proteins, and normal-coordinate structural analysis of experimental and calculated porphyrin structures. Molecular mechanics and dynamics are currently a fertile area of research on porphyrins. In the future, other computational methods such as Monte Carlo simulations, which have yet to be applied to porphyrins, will come into use and open new avenues of research into molecular simulations of porphyrins.

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