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BMC Structural Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in investigations into the structure and function of biological macromolecules.
BMC Structural Biology (ISSN 1472-6807) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :43
A new method which uses information theory to map information exchange on protein domain structures shows how binding may trigger conformational changes and specifically how signal transduction in Fyn tyrosine kinase resembles
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BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :42
The first crystal structure of a eukaryotic guanylate cyclase - from the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - confirms the expected close structural similarity with adenylate cyclases and provides clues as to how activation of the enzyme could occur.
BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :39
Systematically classifying pi-turns in protein structures by measuring the presence of hydrogen bonds, the distance between terminal Calpha atoms and backbone torsion angles indicates that at least 20% occur independent of the Schellman motif.
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Mesothelin, Stereocilin, and Otoancorin are predicted to have superhelical structures with ARM-type repeats Bangalore K Sathyanarayana, Yoonsoo Hahn, Manish S Patankar, Ira Pastan, Byungkook Lee BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :1 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Analysis on conservation of disulphide bonds and their structural features in homologous protein domain families Ratna R Thangudu, Malini Manoharan, Srinivasan N, Frederic Cadet, Sowdhamini R, Bernard Offmann BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :55 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Knottin cyclization: Impact on Structure and Dynamics Annie Heitz, Olga Avrutina, Dung Le-Nguyen, Ulf Diederichsen, Jean-Francois Hernandez, Jerome Gracy, Harald Kolmar, Laurent Chiche BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :54 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Residue contact-count potentials are as effective as residue-residue contact-type potentials for ranking protein decoys Dan M Bolser, Ioannis Filippis, Henning Stehr, Jose Duarte, Michael Lappe BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :53 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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SELECTpro: effective protein model selection using a structure-based energy function resistant to BLUNDERs Arlo Randall, Pierre Baldi BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :52 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Software
PDBalert: automatic, recurrent remote homology tracking and protein structure prediction Vatsal Agarwal, Michael Remmert, Andreas Biegert, Johannes S BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :51 (25 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Ligand-induced conformational changes in a thermophilic ribose-binding protein Matthew J Cuneo, Lorena S Beese, Homme W Hellinga BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :50 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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HOLLOW: Generating Accurate Representations of Channel and Interior Surfaces in Molecular Structures Bosco K Ho, Franz Gruswitz BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :49 (14 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Type II restriction endonuclease R.Hpy188I belongs to the GIY-YIG nuclease superfamily, but exhibits an unusual active site Katarzyna H Kaminska, Mikihiko Kawai, Michal Boniecki, Ichizo Kobayashi, Janusz M Bujnicki BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :48 (14 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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LRRML: a conformational database and an XML description of leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) Tiandi Wei, Jing Gong, Ferdinand Jamitzky, Wolfgang M Heckl, Robert W Stark, Shaila C Roessle BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :47 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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CD24 regulated gene expression and distribution of tight junction proteins is associated with altered barrier function in oral epithelial monolayers Ping Ye, Mangala A Nadkarni, Mary Simonian, Neil Hunter BMC Cell Biology 2009, 10 :2 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Chromatid recommensuration after segmental duplication Mark N Jabbour Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2009, 6 :1 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Automated alphabet reduction for protein datasets Jaume Bacardit, Michael Stout, Jonathan D Hirst, Alfonso Valencia, Robert E Smith, Natalio Krasnogor BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :6 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate
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Jerome C J Fryer Journal of Circadian Rhythms 2009, 7 :1 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A forensic aspect of age characteristics of dentine using transversal microradiography: a case report Leonidas Vasiliadis, Christos Stavrianos, Panagiotis Kafas Cases Journal 2009, 2 :4 (2 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Dynamic splinting for knee flexion contracture following total knee arthroplasty: a case report Eric Finger, F Buck Willis Cases Journal 2008, 1 :421 (29 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Transcriptional Regulation of BRD7 Expression By Sp1 And c-Myc Huaying Liu, Ming Zhou, Xiaomin Luo, Liming Zhang, Zhaoxia Niu, Cong Peng, Jian Ma, Shuping Peng, Houde Zhou, Bo Xiang, Xiayu Li, Shufang Li, Jiajin He, Xiaoling Li, Guiyuan Li BMC Molecular Biology 2008, 9 :111 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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An evolutionary and structural characterization of mammalian protein complex organization Philip Wong, Sonja Althammer, Andrea Hildebrand, Andreas Kirschner, Philipp Pagel, Bernd Geissler, Pawel Smialowski, Florian Bloechl, Matthias Oesterheld, Thorsten Schmidt, Normann Strack, Fabian Theis, Andreas Ruepp, Dmitrij Frishman BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :629 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Essential operating principles for tumor spheroid growth Jesse A. Engelberg, Glen E. P. Ropella, C. Anthony Hunt BMC Systems Biology 2008, 2 :110 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The meaning of alignment: lessons from structural diversity Walter Pirovano, K. Anton Feenstra, Jaap Heringa BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :556 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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