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CONTENTS<br />

0-8493-1141-1/02/$0.00+$1.50<br />

© 2002 by CRC Press LLC<br />

Structure Prediction<br />

of CPPs and Iterative<br />

Development<br />

of Novel CPPs<br />

Olivier Bouffioux, Frédéric Basyn,<br />

René Rezsohazy, and Robert Brasseur<br />

9.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................188<br />

9.2 Methods........................................................................................................190<br />

9.2.1 Description of Water–Bilayer Interfaces .........................................190<br />

9.2.2 Atomic Surface Hydrophobicity (First Restraint)...........................191<br />

9.2.3 Lipid Perturbation (Second Restraint).............................................193<br />

9.2.4 Charge Simulation (Third Restraint) ...............................................194<br />

9.2.5 Procedure..........................................................................................197<br />

9.2.6 Monte Carlo Procedure....................................................................198<br />

9.2.7 Pex2Dstat Files ................................................................................198<br />

9.2.8 Molecular Hydrophobicity Potential (MHP)...................................199<br />

9.3 Results ..........................................................................................................202<br />

9.3.1 Efficiency of Monte Carlo Method Applied to Short Peptides<br />

and Membrane Proteins ...................................................................202<br />

9.3.1.1 Hydrophobic Peptides.......................................................202<br />

9.3.1.2 Membrane Proteins...........................................................204<br />

9.3.2 Penetratin..........................................................................................206<br />

9.3.2.1 Uncharged Membrane Model...........................................208<br />

9.3.2.2 Charged Bilayer Model ....................................................210<br />

9.4 Conclusions ..................................................................................................215<br />

Acknowledgments..................................................................................................219<br />

References..............................................................................................................219<br />

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