Protein surface roughness and small molecular binding sites

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1377-1382

  Pettit, Frank K ^a   Bowie, James U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug design; Fractal dimension; Functional sites; Site prediction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033613904     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2411     Document Type: Article

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