Computational approaches for identification of conserved/unique binding pockets in the A chain of ricin

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3089-3096

  Ecale Zhou, Carol L ^a   Zemla, Adam T ^a   Roe, Diana ^b   Young, Malin ^b   Lam, Marisa ^a   Schoeniger, Joseph S ^b   Balhorn, Rod ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; EPITOPE; LIGAND; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RICIN A; RICIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RICIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 25144444402     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti498     Document Type: Article

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