Abstract
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and homodimeric vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) bind to cell surface receptors. They are responsible for cell growth and angiogenesis, respectively. Docking of the individual proteins as monomeric units using ZDOCK 2.3.2 reveals a partial blocking of the receptor binding site of VEGF by EGF. The receptor binding site of EGF is not affected by VEGF. The calculated binding energy is found to be intermediate between the binding energies calculated for Alzheimer’s Aß42 and the barnase/barstar complex.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1717-1724 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2 Aug 2016 |
Keywords
- EGF/VEGF
- binding energies
- docking
- molecular dynamics simulations
- protein–protein interactions