Using networks to identify fine structural differences between functionally distinct protein states

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 34, 2004, Pages 10886-10895

  Swint Kruse, Liskin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; DATA REDUCTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEINS;

NEUTRAL SUGARS; PROTEIN MOLECULES; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

DNA; LACTOR REPRESSOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 2 NITROPHENYL BETA FUCOSIDE; 2-NITROPHENYL-BETA-FUCOSIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCOSIDE; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LACI PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METHODOLOGY; OPERATOR GENE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GLYCOSIDES; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LAC OPERON; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOMICS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 4644290827     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi049450k     Document Type: Article

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