NMR paves the way for atomic level descriptions of sparsely populated, transiently formed biomolecular conformers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 12867-12874

  Sekhar, Ashok ^a   Kay, Lewis E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy landscape; Invisible states; Structure function paradigm; Transiently and sparsely populated biomolecular states

Indexed keywords

ATOM; CONFORMATION; LIGAND BINDING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MISFOLDING; REVIEW;

ENERGY LANDSCAPE; INVISIBLE STATES; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION PARADIGM; TRANSIENTLY AND SPARSELY POPULATED BIOMOLECULAR STATES;

CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FYN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS;

EID: 84881450365     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305688110     Document Type: Review

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