Principles of flexible protein-protein docking

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 271-289

  Andrusier, Nelly ^a   Mashiach, Efrat ^a   Nussinov, Ruth ^a,b   Wolfson, Haim J ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Backbone flexibility; Flexible docking; Modeling protein protein docking; Rigid body optimization; Side chain refinement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HINGE BENDING MOTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL MODE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN DOCKING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 52249122794     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22170     Document Type: Review

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