Evidence for a Transient Additional Ligand Binding Site in the TAS2R46 Bitter Taste Receptor

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4439-4449

  Sandal, Massimo ^a   Behrens, Maik ^b   Brockhoff, Anne ^b   Musiani, Francesco ^c,d   Giorgetti, Alejandro ^a,e   Carloni, Paolo ^a,f   Meyerhof, Wolfgang ^b  

^a German Research School for Simulation Sciences   (Germany)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LIGAND; STRYCHNINE; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

AGONISTS; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BINDING SITES; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; STRYCHNINE;

EID: 84941145251     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00472     Document Type: Article

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