Backdoor opening mechanism in acetylcholinesterase based on X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations

Protein Science

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1114-1118

  Sanson, Benoît ^a,b,c,i   Colletier, Jacques Philippe ^a,b,c,d   Xu, Yechun ^d   Lang, P Therese ^e   Jiang, Hualiang ^d,f   Silman, Israel ^g   Sussman, Joel L ^g   Weik, Martin ^a,b,c,h  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^g WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^h EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

ⁱ BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AFLATOXIN; ANTIDOTE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

EID: 79959357752     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.661     Document Type: Article

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