Computational prediction of the three-dimensional structures for the Caenorhabditis elegans tubulin family

Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 90-100

  Gogonea, Camelia B ^a   Gogonea, Valentin ^b   Ali, Yusuf M ^a   Merz Jr , Kenneth M ^b   Siddiqui, Shahid S ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A tubulin; Amber calculations; Computational mutagenesis; Homology; Protein 3d structure; Y ntbulin; tiibnlin

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ISOPROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; EXON; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SWINE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; EXONS; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOFTWARE; SWINE; TUBULIN;

EID: 0033106931     PISSN: 10933263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1093-3263(99)00025-X     Document Type: Article

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