Contribution of charged and polar residues for the formation of the E1-E2 heterodimer from Hepatitis C virus

Journal of Molecular Modeling

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1625-1637

  Jusoh, Siti Azma ^a,b   Welsch, Christoph ^c   Siu, Shirley W I ^d   Böckmann, Rainer A ^d   Helms, Volkhard ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charged amino acids; Hepatitis E1 E2 envelope glycoproteins; Molecular dynamics simulation; Salt bridges; Transmembrane helix

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLYCOPROTEIN E1; GLYCOPROTEIN E2; HETERODIMER; LYSINE; TRANSLOCON;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEPACIVIRUS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 77958044535     PISSN: 16102940     EISSN: 09485023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-010-0672-1     Document Type: Article

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