Intrinsically unstructured proteins evolve by repeat expansion

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 847-855

  Tompa, Peter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; PRION PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SALIVA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATABASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROLINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE II; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0042819915     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10324     Document Type: Review

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