Conformational changes in the chaperonin GroEL: New insights into the allosteric mechanism

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1241-1249

  De Groot, Bert L ^a   Vriend, Gerrit ^b   Berendsen, Herman J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co operativity; Computer simulation; Essential dynamics; Protein dynamics; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0033525835     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2568     Document Type: Article

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