Recent advances in employing molecular modelling to determine the specificity of glycan-binding proteins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-55

  Grant, Oliver C ^a   Woods, Robert J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCAN BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HYDROXYL GROUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBOHYDRATE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ACCURACY; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING AND RELATED PHENOMENA; BINDING ENERGY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; BINDING SPECIFICITY; CHEMICAL BOND; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTATIONAL CARBOHYDRATE GRAFTING; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GLYCOSIDIC LINKAGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGAND BINDING; MECHANICAL TORSION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

BINDING SITES; CARBOHYDRATES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84905496965     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.07.001     Document Type: Review

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