Evolutionarily conserved pathways of energetic connectivity in protein families

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5438, 1999, Pages 295-299

  Lockless, Steve W ^a   Ranganathan, Rama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033536602     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5438.295     Document Type: Article

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