Theoretical study of the electrostatically driven step of receptor-G protein recognition

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-156

  Fanelli, Francesca ^a   Menziani, Cristina ^a   Scheer, Alexander ^b   Cotecchia, Susanna ^b   De Benedetti, Pier G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adrenergic receptors; Comparative modeling; Electrostatic potential; G proteins; Molecular dynamics; Rigid body docking

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; ELECTROSTATICS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0032740152     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19991101)37:2<145::AID-PROT1>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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