Computational prediction of structure, substrate binding mode, mechanism, and rate for a malaria protease with a novel type of active site

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 46, 2004, Pages 14521-14528

  Bjelic, Sinisa ^a   Åqvist, Johan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; HEMOGLOBIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYPEPTIDES; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS; STABILIZATION;

CATALYTIC MECHANISM; DRUG INTERVENTION; HISTO-ASPARTIC PROTEASE (HAP); HOMOLOGY;

ENZYMES;

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; HEXAPEPTIDE; HISTIDINE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 8744303696     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048252q     Document Type: Article

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