Exploring the stability of dimers through protein structure topology

Current Protein and Peptide Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 30-36

  Di Paola, Luisa ^a   Mei, Giampiero ^b   Di Venere, Almerinda ^b   Giuliani, Alessandro ^c  

^a Università CAMPUS BioMedico ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Homodimers; Protein contact network

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASCORBATE OXIDASE; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; BOTHROPSTOXIN; DESULFOFERRODOXIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HOMODIMER; HU PROTEIN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PROTEINASE; HYDROCARBON; HYDROLASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84953455810     PISSN: 13892037     EISSN: 18755550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389203716666150923104054     Document Type: Article

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