Lessons in Molecular Recognition: The Effects of Ligand and Protein Flexibility on Molecular Docking Accuracy

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-55

  Erickson, Jon A ^a   Jalaie, Mehran ^a,b   Robertson, Daniel H ^a   Lewis, Richard A ^a   Vieth, Michal ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; THROMBIN; TRYPSIN;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PROTEIN BINDING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0347361642     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm030209y     Document Type: Article

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