The common chemical motifs within anesthetic binding sites

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 318-324

  Bertaccini, Edward J ^a,b,d   Trudell, James R ^a   Franks, Nicholas P ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMINO ACID; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BROMOFORM; CHOLESTEROL OXIDASE; DEHALOGENASE; DICHLOROETHANE; HALOTHANE; ISOENZYME; LUCIFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ARTICLE; DRUG BINDING SITE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANESTHETICS; BINDING SITES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 33846429607     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000253029.67331.8d     Document Type: Article

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