Dinucleotides docking to scorpion polypeptide toxins: A molecular modeling method for protein functional site recognition

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 378, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-161

  Zhu, Jun ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Cheng, Mao Sheng ^a   Zhang, Jing Hai ^a  

^a SHENYANG PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automated docking; Dinucleotides; Molecular modeling; Predicting functional site

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; POLYPEPTIDE; SCORPION ALPHA LIKE TOXIN LQH3; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYSTEINE; METHODS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SCORPION VENOMS;

SCORPIONES;

EID: 57049183573     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.10.122     Document Type: Article

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