New insulin-like proteins with atypical disulfide bond pattern characterized in Caenorhabditis elegans by comparative sequence analysis and homology modeling

Genome Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 348-353

  Duret, Laurent ^a   Guex, Nicolas ^b   Peitsch, Manuel C ^b   Bairoch, Amos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c Dept de Biochimie Médicale ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISULFIDE BOND; INSULIN LIKE ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0031895566     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.8.4.348     Document Type: Article

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