Membrane proteins structures: A review on computational modeling tools

Membrane proteins (MPs) play diverse and important functions in living organisms. They constitute 20% to 30% of the known bacterial, archaean and eukaryotic organisms' genomes. In humans, their importance is emphasized as they represent 50% of all known drug targets. Nevertheless, experimental...

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Autor principal: Almeida, Jose G. (author)
Outros Autores: Preto, Antonio J. (author), Koukos, Panagiotis I. (author), Bonvin, Alexandre M. J. J. (author), Moreira, Irina S. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2017
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/48362
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/48362
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Resumo:Membrane proteins (MPs) play diverse and important functions in living organisms. They constitute 20% to 30% of the known bacterial, archaean and eukaryotic organisms' genomes. In humans, their importance is emphasized as they represent 50% of all known drug targets. Nevertheless, experimental determination of their three-dimensional (3D) structure has proven to be both time consuming and rather expensive, which has led to the development of computational algorithms to complement the available experimental methods and provide valuable insights.