The human olfactory receptor repertoire

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2001, Pages

  Zozulya, Sergey ^a   Echeverri, Fernando ^a   Nguyen, Trieu ^a  

^a Senomyx Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboxyl Terminus; Conserve Sequence Motif; Odorant Receptor; Olfactory Receptor; Sequence Logo

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0035237870     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-6-research0018     Document Type: Article

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