How well can molecular modelling predict the crystal structure: The case of the ligand-binding domain of glutamate receptors

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 87-92

  Paas, Yoav ^c   Devillers Thiéry, Anne ^c   Teichberg, Vivian I ^b   Changeux, Jean Pierre ^a   Eisenstein, Miriam ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID;

ALLOSTERISM; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0002449713     PISSN: 01656147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-6147(99)01443-1     Document Type: Review

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