Insights into the tunnel mechanism of cholesteryl ester transfer protein through All-atom molecular dynamics simulations

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 291, Issue 27, 2016, Pages 14034-14044

  Lei, Dongsheng ^a,b   Rames, Matthew ^a   Zhang, Xing ^a,b   Zhang, Lei ^b   Zhang, Shengli ^b   Ren, Gang ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CHOLESTEROL; DISEASES; ESTERS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULES; PROTEINS;

CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTERYL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEINS; CHOLESTERYL ESTERS; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

CHOLESTEROL ESTER; CHOLESTEROL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEIN; CETP PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TUNNEL MECHANISM; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

CHOLESTEROL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEINS; CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84976905753     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.715565     Document Type: Article

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