Identification and analysis of long-range electrostatic effects in proteins by computer modeling:aspartate transcarbamylase

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 300-314

  Oberoi, Himanshu ^a,b   Trikha, Jaishree ^a,c   Yuan, Xiaoling ^a,d   Allewell, Norma M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Pharmaceutical Product Development   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Incstar ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

allosteric regulation; electrostatic modeling; finite difference; multigrid; Poisson Boltzmann equation

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME; PROTEIN; PROTON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; TITRIMETRY; X RAY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030017790     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199607)25:3<300::AID-PROT3>3.3.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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