Emergence of diverse biochemical activities in evolutionarily conserved structural scaffolds of proteins

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-20

  Anantharaman, Vivek ^a   Aravind, L ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLASTICITY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0037304408     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(02)00018-2     Document Type: Review

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