Research Article

Toward Structure Prediction for Short Peptides Using the Improved SAAP Force Field Parameters

Table 1

Existence ratios (%) of representative structures of chignolin obtained by the SAAP-MC simulation at 300 K in water.

Trajectory numberA ( )BCOther

1 58.5 (11.2)25.9 2.3 13.3
2 54.7 (11.3)26.6 6.6 12.1
3 50.4 (8.4)42.4 3.8 3.4
4 49.3 (11.4)30.7 2.9 17.1
5 45.4 (10.6)37.8 6.1 10.7
6 44.3 (8.9)47.9 0.0 7.8
7 37.9 (19.5)40.2 2.4 19.5
8 37.6 (8.5)27.9 0.0 34.5
9 36.5 (11.2)30.7 6.2 26.6
10 34.7 (6.6)27.3 4.2 33.8
11 32.1 (8.0)32.9 5.5 29.5
12 31.2 (9.7)23.5 0.0 45.3
13 19.8 (3.5)43.7 5.3 31.2
14 14.2 (2.5)31.8 0.0 54.0
15 13.6 (0.0)56.8 6.3 23.3
16 12.8 (2.6)60.0 7.9 19.3
17 10.5 (0.0)59.3 0.0 30.2
18 1.1 (0.0)65.1 0.0 33.8
19 0.0 (0.0)70.4 5.5 24.1
20 0.0 (0.0)83.2 10.2 6.6

Average29.2 (6.7)43.2 3.8 23.8