Alignment and structure prediction of divergent protein families: Periplasmic and outer membrane proteins of bacterial efflux pumps

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 287, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 695-715

  Johnson, Jason M ^a   Church, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Motif detection; Multidrug resistance; Multiple alignment; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE EFFLUX PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC EFFLUX PROTEIN; PORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DRUG RESISTANCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0033515434     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2630     Document Type: Article

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