Transient Non-native Hydrogen Bonds Promote Activation of a Signaling Protein

Cell

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1109-1118

  Gardino, Alexandra K ^a   Villali, Janice ^a   Kivenson, Aleksandr ^a   Lei, Ming ^a   Liu, Ce Feng ^a   Steindel, Phillip ^a   Eisenmesser, Elan Z ^a   Labeikovsky, Wladimir ^a   Wolf Watz, Magnus ^a   Clarkson, Michael W ^a   Kern, Dorothee ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

PROTEINS; SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 71149087504     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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