Systematic variation of amino acid substitutions for stringent assessment of pairwise covariation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 328, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1061-1069

  Govindarajan, Sridhar ^a,b   Ness, Jon E ^a,b   Kim, Seran ^a   Mundorff, Emily C ^a   Minshull, Jeremy ^a,b   Gustafsson, Claes ^a,b  

^a MAXYGEN INC   (United States)

^b DNA20 Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariation; DNA shuffling; Molecular evolution; Mutual information; Subtilisin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SUBTILISIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT;

EID: 0037449144     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00357-7     Document Type: Article

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