Inherent flexibility determines the transition mechanisms of the EF-hands of calmodulin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2104-2109

  Tripathi, Swarnendu ^a   Portman, John J ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; Conformational; Cracking; Protein; Topology

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALLOSTERIC SITE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; EF HAND MOTIFS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 60549089572     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806872106     Document Type: Article

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