A proposed architecture for the Central domain of the bacterial enhancer-binding proteins based on secondary structure prediction and fold recognition

Protein Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 543-555

  Osuna, Joel ^a,b   Soberón, Xavier ^a   Morett, Enrique ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial enhancer binding proteins; fold recognition; secondary structure prediction; sequence alignments

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECRETION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030893053     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560060304     Document Type: Article

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