The relationship of protein conservation and sequence length

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Lipman, David J ^a   Souvorov, Alexander ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a   Panchenko, Anna R ^a   Tatusova, Tatiana A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEOGLOBUS; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; MELANOGASTER; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0347568598     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-2-20     Document Type: Article

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