Neurological Proteins Are Not Enriched for Repetitive Sequences

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1141-1154

  Huntley, Melanie A ^a   Golding, G Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE PROTEIN; POLYGLUTAMINE; POLYMER; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CODON; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALANINE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1942421831     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.3.1141     Document Type: Article

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