Protein function machinery: from basic structural units to modulation of activity

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2017, Pages 67-74

  Berezovsky, Igor N ^a,b   Guarnera, Enrico ^a   Zheng, Zejun ^a   Eisenhaber, Birgit ^a   Eisenhaber, Frank ^a,c  

^a BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTERISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; HUMANS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEINS;

EID: 84995588026     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.10.021     Document Type: Review

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