Electrostatic control of GTP and GDP binding in the oncoprotein p21ras

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 475-489

  Muegge, I ^a   Schweins, T ^b   Langen, R ^c   Warshel, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatic energy; Exchange factor; GAP; Guanine nucleotide binding protein; Ras; Substrate binding

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN P21;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BINDING SITES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GUANINE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHATES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS);

EID: 0030584674     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00052-4     Document Type: Article

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