Modeling Protein Homopolymeric Repeats: Possible Poly glut amine Structural Motifs For Huntington's Disease

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, ISMB 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 105-114

  Lathrop, Richard H ^a   Casale, Malcolm ^a   Tobias, Douglas J ^a   Marsh, J Lawrence ^a   Thompson, Leslie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROTEINS;

DIRECT CONTROL; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EXPERT USERS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MODEL PROTEINS; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN MOTIFS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; STRUCTURAL MOTIFS;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

HD PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYGLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031609016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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