Structural clusters of evolutionary trace residues are statistically significant and common in proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 316, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 139-154

  Madabushi, Srinivasan ^a   Yao, Hui ^a   Marsh, Mike ^a   Kristensen, David M ^a   Philippi, Anne ^a   Sowa, Mathew E ^a   Lichtarge, Olivier ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active site evolution; Bioinformatics; Ligand binding; Protein interaction; Structural genomics

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036300444     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5327     Document Type: Article

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