An investigation into the ability to define transmembrane protein spans using the biophysical properties of amino acid residues

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 189-197

  Daman, Onkabetse ^a   Wallace, James ^b   Harris, Frederick ^a   Phoenix, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acid residues; Statistical test for the homogeneity of multinomial populations; Stop transfer signal sequences; Transmembrane proteins; Uncleaved signal sequences

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACCURACY; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BIOPHYSICS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MATHEMATICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 22744431807     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-005-1738-8     Document Type: Article

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