Merging extracellular domains: Fold prediction for laminin G-like and amino-terminal thrombospondin-like modules based on homology to pentraxins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 275, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 725-730

  Beckmann, Georg ^a   Hanke, Jens ^a   Bork, Peer ^a,b   Reich, Jens G ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laminins; Pentraxins; Protein modules; Sequence analysis; Thrombospondins

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID P COMPONENT; ASPARTIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LAMININ; PENTRAXIN; PROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0032488886     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1510     Document Type: Article

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