Probing the structure of falcipain-3, a cysteine protease from Plasmodium falciparum: Comparative protein modeling and docking studies

Protein Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 501-509

  Sabnis, Yogesh A ^a   Desai, Prashant V ^a   Rosenthal, Philip J ^c   Avery, Mitchell A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Docking; Falcipain; Homology modeling; Plasmoditim falciparum

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; FALCIPAIN 2; FALCIPAIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEGRADATION; DRUG TARGETING; ENERGY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; HYDROGEN BONDING; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0037370645     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0228103     Document Type: Article

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