Identification of specificity and promiscuity of PDZ domain interactions through their dynamic behavior

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 796-811

  Gerek, Z Nevin ^a   Keskin, Ozlem ^b   Ozkan, S Banu ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Binding; Dynamics; Elastic network model; PDZ domain; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

PDZ PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PDZ DOMAIN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANISOTROPY; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PDZ DOMAINS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70450065485     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22492     Document Type: Article

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