Structural basis of neurophysin hormone specificity: Geometry, polarity, and polarizability in aromatic ring interactions

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 820-831

  Breslow, Esther ^a   Mombouyran, Valerie ^a   Deeb, Ruba ^a   Zheng, Changsheng ^a   Rose, John P ^b   Wang, Bi Cheng ^b   Haschemeyer, Rudy H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Binding site modeling; Hormone binding site; Neurophysin specificity; Phenyl ring binding

Indexed keywords

NEUROPHYSIN; PHENYL GROUP; SULFUR ACID AMIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGAND BINDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032891340     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.4.820     Document Type: Article

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