X-SITE: Use of empirically derived atomic packing preferences to identify favourable interaction regions in the binding sites of proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 175-201

  Laskowski, Roman A ^a   Thornton, Janet M ^a   Humblet, Christine ^b   Singh, Juswinder ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Atom atom contacts; Inhibitor binding; Protein binding sites; Protein modelling; Rational drug design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DATA BASE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029895576     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0311     Document Type: Article

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