INTERNAL MOTIONS OF NATIVE LYSOZYME ARE MORE ORGANIZED THAN THOSE OF MUTANTS - A PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS DATA

Principal component analysis (PCA) of molecular dynamics simulations o f hen egg white lysozyme and its mutants indicate that even small chan ges in the amino acid sequence alter considerably the internal molecul ar motions and that the internal motions are more organized in the nat ive enzyme than in the mutants. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rig hts reserved.