Blind, one-eyed, or eagle-eyed? pK a calculations during blind predictions with staphylococcal nuclease

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3299-3305

  Czodrowski, Paul ^a  

^a MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

BIPS; Electrostatics; PEOE PB; PK a calculations; PK a cooperative, protonation states; PK a values; SNase

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BINARY PROTONATION STATE AT PHYSIOLOGICAL PH; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGAND BINDING; PH; PKA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTON TRANSPORT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 81055156977     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.23110     Document Type: Article

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