High-resolution protein complexes from integrating genomic information with molecular simulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 22124-22129

  Schug, Alexander ^a   Weigt, Martin ^b   Onuchic, José N ^a   Hwa, Terence ^a   Szurmant, Hendrik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct coupling analysis; Signal transduction; Structure based simulations; Transient protein complexes; Two component system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SPO0B PROTEIN; SPO0F PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENOMICS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 76049105937     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912100106     Document Type: Article

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