Conservation Helps to Identify Biologically Relevant Crystal Contacts

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 313, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 399-416

  Valdar, William S J ^a   Thornton, Janet M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystal contacts; Interfaces; Oligomers; Proteins; Residue conservation

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; LIGAND; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DIMERIZATION; ENZYMES; LIGANDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0035914476     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5034     Document Type: Article

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