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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Gao M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3812058 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS computational biology 20131024 10
Many biological activities originate from interactions between small-molecule ligands and their protein targets. A detailed structural and physico-chemical characterization of these interactions could significantly deepen our understanding of protein function and facilitate drug design. Here, we present a large-scale study on a non-redundant set of about 20,000 known ligand-binding sites, or pockets, of proteins. We find that the structural space of protein pockets is crowded, likely complete, a ...[more]