Agonist binding to chemosensory receptors: A systematic bioinformatics analysis

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2017, Pages

  Fierro, Fabrizio ^a   Suku, Eda ^b   Alfonso Prieto, Mercedes ^a,c   Giorgetti, Alejandro ^a,b   Cichon, Sven ^a,d,e   Carloni, Paolo ^a,f,g  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Bitter taste receptor; Chemosensory receptor; G protein coupled receptor; Homology modeling; Molecular docking; Molecular mechanics coarse grained simulations; Odorant receptor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034078770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296889X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2017.00063     Document Type: Article

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