Computational analysis of pathogen-borne metallo β-lactamases reveals discriminating structural features between B1 types
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Analysis of ordered and disordered protein complexes reveals structural features discriminating between stable and unstable monomers.
Most proteins exist in the cell as multi-component assemblies. However, which proteins need to be present simultaneously in order to perform a given function is frequently unknown. The first step toward this goal would be to predict proteins that can function only when in a complexed form. Here, we propose a scheme to distinguish whether the protein components are ordered (stable) or disordered...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Research Notes
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1756-0500
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-96