What vibrations tell us about GTPases

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 396, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 131-144

  Kötting, Carsten ^a   Gerwert, Klaus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomolecular simulations; caged compounds; catalysis; proteins; reaction mechanism; vibrational spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; RAB PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME KINETICS; GEOMETRY; HYDROLYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; VIBRATION;

EID: 84921370433     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2014-0219     Document Type: Review

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