Energetics of the loop-to-helix transition leading to the coiled-coil structure of influenza virus hemagglutinin HA2 subunits

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-303

  Huang, Qiang ^a   Korte, Thomas ^b   Rachakonda, P Sivaramakrishna ^b   Knappd, Ernst Walter ^c   Herrmann, Andreas ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformational change; Continuum solvent model; Free energy change; Fusion Mediated protein; Poisson boltzmann equation; Protein protonation; Virus cell membrane fusion

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; WATER; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENDOSOME; ENERGY TRANSFER; HOST CELL; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS CELL MEMBRANE FUSION; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 59449104515     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22157     Document Type: Article

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