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Ensemble-based computational approach discriminates functional activity of p53 cancer and rescue mutants.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Oct 2011
Demir Özlem, Baronio Roberta, Salehi Faezeh, Wassman Christopher D, Hall Linda, Hatfield G Wesley, Chamberlin Richard, Kaiser Peter, Lathrop Richard H, Amaro Rommie E
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The tumor suppressor protein p53 can lose its function upon single-point missense mutations in the core DNA-binding domain ("cancer mutants"). Activity can be restored by second-site suppressor mutations ("rescue mutants"). This paper relates the functional activity of p53 cancer and rescue mutants to their overall molecular dynamics (MD), without focusing on local structural details. A novel global measure of...
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