Exploring the Conformational Transitions of Biomolecular Systems Using a Simple Two-State Anisotropic Network Model

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Das, Avisek ^a   Gur, Mert ^b   Cheng, Mary Hongying ^b   Jo, Sunhwan ^a   Bahar, Ivet ^b   Roux, Benoît ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOINFORMATICS; COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ANISOTROPIC NETWORKS; BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; ELASTIC NETWORK MODELS; HYPER-SURFACES; NETWORK MODELS; SIMPLE++; TRANSITION PATHWAY; TRANSITION STATE; TWO-STATE;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ADENYLATE KINASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; LEUCINE TRANSPORTER; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LEUCINE;

ANISOTROPIC NETWORK MODEL; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

ADENYLATE KINASE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; CARRIER PROTEINS; LEUCINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES;

EID: 84901376917     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003521     Document Type: Article

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