Defining a similarity threshold for a functional protein sequence pattern: The signal peptide cleavage site

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-177

  Nielsen, Henrik ^a   Engelbrecht, Jacob ^a   Von Heijne, Gunnar ^b   Brunak, Søren ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

database errors; redundancy reduction; sequence data sets; signal peptides; similarity screening

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTROPY; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029868212     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199602)24:2<165::AID-PROT4>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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