Structural conservation in single-domain proteins: Implications for homology modeling

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 246-256

  D'Alfonso, Giulio ^a   Tramontano, Anna ^a   Lahm, Armin ^a  

^a IRBM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comparative modeling; Domain; Structure conservation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0035782682     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2001.4351     Document Type: Article

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