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Rational mutagenesis to support structure-based drug design: MAPKAP kinase 2 as a case study

Maria A Argiriadi1,2*, Silvino Sousa1,3, David Banach1,2, Douglas Marcotte1,4, Tao Xiang1,5, Medha J Tomlinson1,3, Megan Demers1,6, Christopher Harris1,2, Silvia Kwak1,2, Jennifer Hardman1,2, Margaret Pietras1,3, Lisa Quinn1,7, Jennifer DiMauro1,5, Baofu Ni1,3, John Mankovich1,8, David W Borhani1,9, Robert V Talanian1,2 and Ramkrishna Sadhukhan1,3

1 Department of Biochemistry, Abbott Laboratories, Worcester, MA USA

2 Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Abbott Laboratories, Worcester, MA USA

3 Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Abbott Laboratories, Worcester, MA USA

4 Present address : Department of Physical Biochemistry, Biogen Idec, Cambridge, MA USA

5 Present address : Department of Process Sciences, Abbott Laboratories, Worcester, MA USA

6 Present address : 119 North Swain Street, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA

7 Present address : Protein Sciences Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA USA

8 Present address : Department of Biologics, Abbott Laboratories, Worcester, MA USA

9 Present address : D. E. Shaw Research, New York, NY USA

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BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9:16 doi:10.1186/1472-6807-9-16

Published: 18 March 2009

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Complete list of MK2 expression constructs and MK2 robotic crystallization screen used for identification of crystallization hits. Table S7 is a complete listing of MK2 expression constructs with crystal forms identified. Table S8 is a complete matrix listing of the crystallization screen used in the identification of crystallization hits.

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