Aggregation of Lipid-Anchored Full-Length H-Ras in Lipid Bilayers: Simulations with the MARTINI Force Field

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Li, Hualin ^a   Gorfe, Alemayehu A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DILINOLEYLLECITHIN; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; H RAS PROTEIN; LIPID; NANOCLUSTER; NANOMATERIAL; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; COARSE GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; LIPID BILAYER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; RAS PROTEINS;

EID: 84880774333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071018     Document Type: Article

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