Prediction of N-terminal protein sorting signals

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 394-398

  Claros, Manuel G ^a   Brunak, Søren ^b   Heijne, Gunnar Von ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHLOROPLAST; MITOCHONDRION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

EID: 0030996756     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80057-7     Document Type: Article

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