Prior knowledge or freedom of interpretation? A critical look at a recently published classification of 'novel' Zn binding sites

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 770-776

  Raczynska, Joanna E ^a   Wlodawer, Alexander ^b   Jaskolski, Mariusz ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Protein data bank (PDB); Stereochemistry; Zn coordination

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; LIGAND; ZINC; METALLOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLASSIFICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; GEOMETRY; KNOWLEDGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; STEREOCHEMISTRY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN DATABASE; STEREOISOMERISM;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; LIGANDS; METALLOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM; ZINC;

EID: 84960145790     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.25024     Document Type: Article

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