Structural systems biology: Modelling protein interactions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 188-197

  Aloy, Patrick ^a,b   Russell, Robert B ^b  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CELL ACTIVATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644550021     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1859     Document Type: Review

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