The role of electrostatic interaction in the molecular recognition of selective agonists to metabotropic glutamate receptors

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 609-619

  Macchiarulo, Antonio ^a   Costantino, Gabriele ^a   Sbaglia, Robert ^a,b   Aiello, Stefania ^a,c   Meniconi, Mirco ^a   Pellicciari, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agonists; Docking; Electrostatic interactions; MGluRs; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

AGONIST; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCKING TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; EVALUATION; INFORMATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; TECHNIQUE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; ELECTROSTATICS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PROPIONIC ACIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0037340993     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10301     Document Type: Article

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