The biological function of an insect antifreeze protein simulated by molecular dynamics

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Kuiper, Michael J ^a   Morton, Craig J ^b   Abraham, Sneha E ^a   Gray Weale, Angus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b St Vincents Institute of Medical Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; ICE; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; THREONINE;

ADSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREEZING; FREEZING TOLERANCE; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE RELATED PHENOMENA; THERMODYNAMICS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; KINETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; HEXAPODA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; COLD TEMPERATURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FREEZING; HYDROGEN BONDING; ICE; INSECT PROTEINS; KINETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS; THREONINE;

EID: 84930662128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05142     Document Type: Article

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