Pierced Lasso Bundles Are a New Class of Knot-like Motifs

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Haglund, Ellinor ^a,b   Sulkowska, Joanna I ^c   Noel, Jeffrey K ^b   Lammert, Heiko ^b   Onuchic, José N ^b   Jennings, Patricia A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; CHAINS; HORMONES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CYTOKINES; DISULPHIDE BRIDGE; HELICAL BUNDLE; HELIX BUNDLE; HOMOLOGOUS PROTEINS; LEPTINS; LONG CHAINS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS; POLYPEPTIDES CHAINS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

PROTEINS;

LEPTIN; CYSTEINE; CYTOKINE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; DISULFIDE BOND; KNOT LIKE MOTIF; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; PIERCED LASSO BUNDLE MOTIF; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TARGETING; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DESIGN; HUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYSTEINE; CYTOKINES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DRUG DESIGN; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

EID: 84903386053     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003613     Document Type: Article

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