Computational approaches to investigating allostery

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 159-171

  Schueler Furman, Ora ^a   Wodak, Shoshana J ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HUMAN;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84984865333     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.06.017     Document Type: Review

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