Building a foundation for structure-based cellulosome design for cellulosic ethanol: Insight into cohesin-dockerin complexation from computer simulation

Protein Science

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 949-959

  Xu, Jiancong ^a   Crowley, Michael F ^a,b   Smith, Jeremy C ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive biasing force; Cellulosic ethanol; Cellulosome; Cohesin dockerin; Free energy perturbation; Potential of mean force; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CELLULOSOME; COHESIN; DOCKERIN; HYDROGEN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONFORMATION; ELECTRICITY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELLULOSOMES; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHANOL; HYDROGEN BONDING; LIGNIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 65649099114     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.105     Document Type: Article

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