Sequence variations within protein families are linearly related to structural variations

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 323, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 551-562

  Koehl, Patrice ^a   Levitt, Michael ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein sequence; Protein sequence alignment; Protein structure; Protein structure alignment; Sequence design

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036408311     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00971-3     Document Type: Article

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