Protein folds, functions and evolution

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 333-342

  Thornton, Janet M ^a,b   Orengo, Christine A ^a   Todd, Annabel E ^a   Pearl, Frances M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enzymes; Protein evolution; Protein folds; Protein function; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; GENOME; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032698873     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3054     Document Type: Article

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