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As HTT is an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP), a large ensemble of various conformations (instead of a mostly single native conformation) is required to characterize its structural properties and to infer biological functions, which is challenging even for the most state-of-the-art experimental techniques. For this reason, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with enhanced sampling techniques are ideal to compliment experiment on collecting such a large ensemble of thermodynamically accessible structures. Here, we performed large-scale temperature replica-exchange MD (T-REMD) simulations on the exon-1 with an illustration on the necessity of using T-REMD instead of unbiased regular MD. By comparing T-REMD data and unbiased MD data, we discovered that (1) the dynamics of polyQ regions are extremely sluggish and glassy at the room temperature and the relaxation of the system cannot be achieved within a reasonable amount of time without utilizing an enhanced sampling method and (2) an ensemble of protein structures containing the surprising cis-peptide bonds in the proline-rich domain can be obtained at much elevated temperatures. 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