Coupled folding and binding with α-helix-forming molecular recognition elements

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 37, 2005, Pages 12454-12470

  Oldfield, Christopher J ^a,d   Cheng, Yugong ^a   Cortese, Marc S ^b   Romero, Pedro ^b   Uversky, Vladimir N ^a,b,c   Dunker, A Keith ^a,b  

^a Molecular Kinetics Inc   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

^d Institute for Molecular Virology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; CONFORMATIONS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS;

MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL CONFORMATIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

POLYPROLINE; PROLINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BINDING SITES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 24944546549     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi050736e     Document Type: Article

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