Homology modeling and mutagenesis analyses of Plasmodium falciparum falcipain 2A: Implications for rational drug design

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 323, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 565-572

  Goh, Liuh Ling ^a   Sim, Tiow Suan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Falcipain 2A; Protein folding; Rational drug design; Site directed mutagenesis; Substrate binding

Indexed keywords

FALCIPAIN 2A; PROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE TARGETING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG DESIGN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 4544367028     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.08.130     Document Type: Article

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