Effects of point mutations on protein structure are nonexponentially distributed

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1780-1790

  Arodź, Tomasz ^a,b   Płonka, Przemysław M ^b  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amino acid substitutions; Computational biology; PDB; Protein evolution; Protein structure change

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASTICITY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84862170166     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24073     Document Type: Article

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