Using a coarse-grained elastic model, we examine the bending properties of anti-parallel β-sheets comprised of uniform amino-acid residues in vacuum as well as in explicit solvent. By comparing the conformational probability of the β-sheet from …
The elasticity of α-helices is examined using equilibrium molecular-dynamics simulations. From the statistics of curvatures and twists, we compute the elastic moduli of several representative α-helices, both in the presence and absence of aqueous …