Conservation of amino acids in multiple alignments: Aspartic acid has unexpected conservation

FEBS Letters

Volumn 397, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 225-229

  Fiser, András ^a,b   Simon, István ^b   Barton, Geoffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Conservation analysis; Multiple sequence alignment; Protein structure prediction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ASPARTIC ACID; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0030592845     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(96)01181-7     Document Type: Article

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