Rigid body essential X-ray crystallography: Distinguishing the bend and twist of glutamate receptor ligand binding domains

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 434-446

  Bjerrum, Esben J ^a   Biggin, Philip C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agonist; Antagonist; Computational; Conformational change; GluR2; Ionotropic; Simulation

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR SUBTYPE 2; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; MONOMER;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, AMPA;

EID: 44949109192     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21941     Document Type: Article

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