Four-α-helix bundle with designed anesthetic binding pockets. Part I: Structural and dynamical analyses

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4454-4463

  Dejian, Ma ^a   Brandon, Nicole R ^a   Cui, Tanxing ^a   Bondarenko, Vasyl ^a   Canlas, Christian ^a   Johansson, Jonas S ^a,c   Tang, Pei ^a,b   Xu, Yan ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DESIGN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANESTHETICS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DESIGN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 44849083478     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.117838     Document Type: Article

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