Tertiary structure prediction of SARS coronavirus helicase

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 343, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1101-1104

  Bernini, Andrea ^a,b   Spiga, Ottavia ^a,b   Venditti, Vincenzo ^a   Prischi, Filippo ^a   Bracci, Luisa ^a   Huang, Jiandong ^c   Tanner, Julian A ^c   Niccolai, Neri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b SienaBiografix Srl   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Drug design; Helicase structure; Molecular modeling; Protein structure; SARS coronavirus; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BANANIN DERIVATIVE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENZYME; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARS CORONAVIRUS; VIRUS INHIBITION;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA HELICASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SARS VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CORONAVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS; STRAWBERRY CRINKLE VIRUS;

EID: 33646049051     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.03.069     Document Type: Article

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