An overview of recent advances in structural bioinformatics of protein-protein interactions and a guide to their principles

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 141-150

  Sudha, Govindarajan ^a   Nussinov, Ruth ^b,c   Srinivasan, Narayanaswamy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conformation; Evolution; Function; Interaction; Protein protein complexes; Structure

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MUTATION; PHARMACOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEINS; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES;

EID: 84924077519     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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