Fractal nature of protein surface roughness: A note on quantification of change of surface roughness in active sites, before and after binding

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 201-214

  Banerji, Anirban ^a   Navare, Charudatta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

active site roughness; fractal dimension; protein surface roughness; statistical self similarity; van der Waals contacts

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; FRACTALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84875466478     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: 10991352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmr.2264     Document Type: Review

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