Exploring hydrophobic sites in proteins with xenon or krypton

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-73

  Prangé, Thierry ^a   Schiltz, Marc ^a   Pernot, Lucile ^a   Colloc'h, Nathalie ^b   Longhi, Sonia ^c   Bourguet, William ^d   Fourme, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b LMCP   (France)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Hydrophobic cavity; Krypton; Protein ligand binding; Xenon

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; CUTINASE; ENDOTOXIN; KRYPTON; LYSOZYME; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; SUBTILISIN; URATE OXIDASE; XENON;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FUSARIUM; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGAND BINDING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KRYPTON; PROTEINS; XENON;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; HYPODERMA LINEATUM; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SUIDAE;

EID: 0002306796     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19980101)30:1<61::AID-PROT6>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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