Positional dependence, cliques, and predictive motifs in the bHLH protein domain

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 501-516

  Atchley, William R ^a   Terhalle, Werner ^b   Dress, Andreas ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basic helix loop helix proteins; bHLH; Boltzmann entropy; Cliques; Information theory; Positional dependence; Predictive motifs

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA BINDING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032925848     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006494     Document Type: Article

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