Correlations among amino acid sites in bHLH protein domains: An information theoretic analysis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 164-178

  Atchley, William R ^b   Wollenberg, Kurt R ^c   Fitch, Walter M ^a   Terhalle, Werner ^b   Dress, Andreas W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Entropy; Helix loop helix; Mutual information; Parametric bootstrap; Protein evolution

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0033977832     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026229     Document Type: Article

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