Beta Atomic Contacts: Identifying Critical Specific Contacts in Protein Binding Interfaces
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Beta Atomic Contacts: Identifying Critical Specific Contacts in Protein Binding Interfaces
Specific binding between proteins plays a crucial role in molecular functions and biological processes. Protein binding interfaces and their atomic contacts are typically defined by simple criteria, such as distance-based definitions that only use some threshold of spatial distance in previous studies. These definitions neglect the nearby atomic organization of contact atoms, and thus detect pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059737