Modeling of peptides connecting the ligand-binding and transmembrane domains in the GluR2 glutamate receptor

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 271-280

  Speranskiy, K ^a,b   Kurnikova, M G ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA; Helicity; iGluR; Importance sampling; Ligand gated ion channel; Peptide folding; REMD; Structure function relationship

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; MONOMER; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGAND BINDING; MEMBRANE MODEL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, AMPA; WATER;

EID: 67650252005     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22332     Document Type: Article

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