The possibility in md depends on strongly on the size and your
computational resources. How long is it? Note that a single long helix
requires a much larger periodic box than the same peptide length when it
forms a helical bundle.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 5:48 AM Homeo Morphism <homeo.morphizm.gmail.com>
wrote:
> We are trying to assemble a long alpha-helix by stitching together known
> but shorter alpha-helices.
>
> We've gone through the appropriate literature on the subject before
> committing to individual fragments and the secondary structure prediction
> tools are saying there's a chance our final structure will end up folding
> as a long alpha-helix indeed.
>
> Is there any way we can also buttress these results with MD simulations? I
> can think of two obvious things:
>
> 1) just waiting for it to unfold from an already folded state;
>
> 2) watching how it will be folding from a completely unfolded state or a
> random coil.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
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