Free energy simulations of ligand binding to the aspartate transporter Glt Ph

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2380-2388

  Heinzelmann, Germano ^a   Baştuǧ, Turgut ^a,b   Kuyucak, Serdar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGAND; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ASPARTIC ACID; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; SODIUM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 81255200359     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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