Computational approaches for the design of peptides with anti-breast cancer properties

Future Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 201-212

  Shields, George C ^a  

^a Armstrong State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPLICA EXCHANGE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYCLIZATION; DRUG DESIGN; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77953395046     PISSN: 17568919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/fmc.09.13     Document Type: Article

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