Determination of ligand pathways in globins: Apolar tunnels versus polar gates

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 33163-33178

  Salter, Mallory D ^a   Blouin, George C ^a,e   Soman, Jayashree ^a   Singleton, Eileen W ^a   Dewilde, Sylvia ^b   Moens, Luc ^b   Pesce, Alessandra ^c   Nardini, Marco ^d   Bolognesi, Martino ^d   Olson, John S ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTAL HISTIDINE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; HEME IRON; LIGAND MOVEMENT; MAPPING STRATEGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL DEMANDS; PORPHYRIN RINGS; SHORT CHANNELS; SPERM WHALES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; HEMOGLOBIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; PORPHYRINS;

LIGANDS;

HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; HISTIDINE; MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOLAR TUNNEL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CEREBATULUS LACTEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGAND BINDING; MARINE SPECIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE MAPPING; POLAR GATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPERM WHALE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CODON; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HEMOGLOBINS; INVERTEBRATES; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; MYOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; SPERM WHALE;

CEREBRATULUS LACTEUS; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 84866933231     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.392258     Document Type: Article

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