Properties and prediction of mitochondrial transit peptides from Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 59-66

  Bender, Andreas ^a   Van Dooren, Giel G ^b   Ralph, Stuart A ^b   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^b   Schneider, Gisbert ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neural network; Principal component analysis; Protein targeting; Sequence analysis; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; GLYCINE; ISOLEUCINE; LYSINE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSIT PEPTIDE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWISS-PROT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0242361265     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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