Fragment-based identification of determinants of conformational and spectroscopic change at the ricin active site

BMC Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Carra, John H ^a   McHugh, Colleen A ^b   Mulligan, Sheila ^c   Machiesky, LeeAnn M ^d   Soares, Alexei S ^e   Millard, Charles B ^f  

^a UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MOUNT ST MARY S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Goldbelt Raven LLC   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMIDE; ARGININE; CATION; PURINE; RICIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UREA; LIGAND; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RICIN; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 38149105771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-7-72     Document Type: Article

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