Gene families: The taxonomy of protein paralogs and chimeras

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5338, 1997, Pages 609-614

  Henikoff, Steven ^a   Greene, Elizabeth A ^b   Pietrokovski, Shmuel ^b   Bork, Peer ^c,d   Attwood, Teresa K ^e   Hood, Leroy ^f  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN; GLOBIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RHODOPSIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DNA BINDING; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; TAXONOMY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATABASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030660580     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5338.609     Document Type: Article

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