Dimerization of a flocculent protein from Moringa oleifera: Experimental evidence and in silico interpretation

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 406-415

  Pavankumar, Asalapuram R ^a   Kayathri, Rajarathinam ^a   Murugan, Natarajan A ^a   Zhang, Qiong ^a   Srivastava, Vaibhav ^a   Okoli, Chuka ^a   Bulone, Vincent ^a   Rajarao, Gunaratna K ^a   Ågren, Hans ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

binding free energy; Flocculent protein; homology modelling; oligomerization; protein protein interactions

Indexed keywords

DIMER; ISOPROTEIN; MONOMER; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING FREE ENERGY CALCULATION; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD CLOTTING; COMPUTER MODEL; DIMERIZATION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORINGA OLEIFERA; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; MORINGA OLEIFERA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84892637903     PISSN: 07391102     EISSN: 15380254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2013.770374     Document Type: Article

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