Multiscale simulations on human Frizzled and Taste2 GPCRs

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2019, Pages 8-16

  Alfonso Prieto, Mercedes ^a,b   Giorgetti, Alejandro ^a,c   Carloni, Paolo ^a,d,e  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN FZD4; PROTEIN TASTE2; PROTEIN TM6; PROTEIN TM7; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIGAND; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

ALPHA HELIX; ATOM; BINDING AFFINITY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BINDING SITES; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

EID: 85063545589     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2019.02.009     Document Type: Review

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