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BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :62
Comparing electron-ion interaction potentials of amino acids in pandemic H1N1 hemagglutinin against those of non-pandemic H1N1/N2 reveals four mutations that seem critical for increased interaction with human proteins, and three sites where mutations will probably increase human infectivity.
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Interacting with the biomolecular solvent accessible surface via a haptic feedback device Matthew B Stocks, Steven Hayward, Stephen D Laycock BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :69 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Partially-supervised protein subclass discovery with simultaneous annotation of functional residues Benjamin Georgi, Jorg Schultz, Alexander Schliep BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :68 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Structural insights into the substrate tunnel of Saccharomyces cerevisiae carbonic anhydrase Nce103 Yan-Bin Teng, Yong-Liang Jiang, Yong-xing He, Wei-Wei He, Fu-Ming Lian, Yuxing Chen, Cong-Zhao Zhou BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :67 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Machine learning integration for predicting the effect of single amino acid substitutions on protein stability Aysegul Ozen, Mehmet Gonen, Ethem Alpaydin, Turkan Haliloglu BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :66 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Conformational changes and loose packing promote E. coli Tryptophanase cold lability Anna Kogan, Garik Y Gdalevsky, Rivka Cohen-Luria, Yehuda Goldgur, Robert S Phillips, Abraham H Parola, Orna Almog BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :65 (8 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Molecular models for intrastrand DNA G-quadruplexes Federico Fogolari, Haritha Haridas, Alessandra Corazza, Paolo Viglino, Davide Cor BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :64 (7 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Structural and functional characteristics of xenavidin, the first frog avidin from Xenopus tropicalis Juha AE M BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :63 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Identification of hemagglutinin structural domain and polymorphisms which may modulate swine H1N1 interactions with human receptor Veljko Veljkovic, Henry L Niman, Sanja Glisic, Nevena Veljkovic, Vladimir Perovic, Claude P Muller BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :62 (28 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ] [1 comment ]
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Mirrors in the PDB: left-handed Srinivas Annavarapu, Vikas Nanda BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :61 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Exploring protein structural dissimilarity to facilitate structure classification Pooja Jain, Jonathan D Hirst BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :60 (19 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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RNA folding on the 3D triangular lattice Joel Gillespie, Martin Mayne, Minghui Jiang BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :369 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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(PS)2-v2: template-based protein structure prediction server Chih-Chieh Chen, Jenn-Kang Hwang, Jinn-Moon Yang BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :366 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Prediction of hot spot residues at protein-protein interfaces by combining machine learning and energy-based methods Stefano Lise, Cedric Archambeau, Massimiliano Pontil, David T Jones BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :365 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Characterization of the amyloid bacterial inclusion bodies of the HET-s fungal prion Raimon Sabate, Alba Espargaro, Sven J Saupe, Salvador Ventura Microbial Cell Factories 2009, 8 :56 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A BAC-based physical map of Brachypodium distachyon and its comparative analysis with rice and wheat Yong Q Gu, Yaqin Ma, Naxin Huo, John P Vogel, Frank M You, Gerard R Lazo, William M Nelson, Carol Soderlund, Jan Dvorak, Olin D Anderson, Ming-Cheng Luo BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :496 (27 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A structure filter for the Eukaryotic Linear Motif Resource Allegra Via, Cathryn M Gould, Christine Gemund, Toby J Gibson, Manuela Helmer-Citterich BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :351 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Grammatical-Restrained Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Bioinformatics Applications Piero Fariselli, Castrense Savojardo, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2009, 4 :13 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evidence for the adaptation of protein pH-dependence to subcellular pH Pedro Chan, Jim Warwicker BMC Biology 2009, 7 :69 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Mapping of protein phosphatase-6 association with its SAPS domain regulatory subunit using a model of helical repeats Julien Guergnon, Urszula Derewenda, Jessica R Edelson, David L Brautigan BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :24 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Endocytosis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins Shaheen E Lakhan, Shefali Sabharanjak, Ananya De Journal of Biomedical Science 2009, 16 :93 (15 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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