Predicting protein pK a by environment similarity

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 484-495

  Milletti, Francesca ^a   Storchi, Loriano ^b   Cruciani, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b Molecular Discovery Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

pK a prediction; Protein ionization; Protein similarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PKA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA FINGERPRINTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 67650264153     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22363     Document Type: Article

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