Gleaning non-trivial structural, functional and evolutionary information about proteins by iterative database searches

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 287, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1023-1040

  Aravind, L ^a,b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA ligase; Iterative database search; PSI BLAST; Sialoglycoprotease; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AMINO ACID; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEINASE; PURINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DATA BASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033574503     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2653     Document Type: Article

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