A novel approach to segregate and identify functional loop regions in protein structures using their Ramachandran maps

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 900-916

  Kumar, Mattaparthi Venkata Satish ^a   Swaminathan, Rajaram ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Automated protein structure analysis; Dihedral angle; Disordered protein; Mean separation of points in ramachandran plot (msrp); Molecular dynamics simulation; Protein dna interaction; Protein ligand interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA DETERMINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

PROTEIN;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 77949333015     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22615     Document Type: Article

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