Aromatic-aromatic interactions in proteins: Beyond the dimer

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1623-1633

  Lanzarotti, Esteban ^a   Biekofsky, Rolf R ^a   Estrin, Darío A ^a   Marti, Marcelo A ^a   Turjanski, Adrián G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIZATION; DIMERS; LIGANDS;

AROMATIC-AROMATIC INTERACTIONS; LIGAND RECOGNITION; PRIMARY STRUCTURES; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; PROTEIN-PROTEIN RECOGNITION; STRUCTURE STABILITY; WELL-DEFINED STRUCTURES;

CALMODULIN;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CALMODULIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION;

CALMODULIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEINS;

EID: 79960706975     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci200062e     Document Type: Article

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