A Computational Study of the Glycine-Rich Loop of Mitochondrial Processing Peptidase

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Kučera, Tomáš ^a,b   Otyepka, Michal ^c   Matušková, Anna ^a   Samad, Abdul ^a   Kutejová, Eva ^a,d   Janata, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROCESSING PEPTIDASE; PEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GLYCINE RICH LOOP; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GLYCINE; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884153181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074518     Document Type: Article

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