The correlation between introns and the three-dimensional structure of proteins

Gene

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 141-144

  De Souza, Sandro Jose ^a   Long, Manyuan ^a   Schoenbach, Lloyd ^a   Roy, Scott William ^a   Gilbert, Walter ^a  

^a Biological Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Exons; Module

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EXONS; INTRONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031593160     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00401-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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