Assessing the quality of the homology-modeled 3D structures from electrostatic standpoint: Test on bacterial nucleoside monophosphate kinase families

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 693-715

  Kundrotas, Petras ^a   Georgieva, Paulina ^b   Shoshieva, Alexandra ^c   Christova, Petya ^b   Alexova, Emil ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Bulgaria)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Homology modeling; Multiple sequence alignment; Nucleoside monophosphate (NMP) kinase; pKa calculations

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBAMATE KINASE; GUANYLATE KINASE; NUCLEOSIDE MONOPHOSPHATE KINASE; THYMIDINE KINASE; URIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PH; PROTEIN FAMILY; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSIDE-PHOSPHATE KINASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34547872792     PISSN: 02197200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219720007002709     Document Type: Article

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