Graph-representation of oxidative folding pathways

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ágoston, Vilmos ^a   Cemazar, Masa ^b,c   Kaján, László ^b   Pongor, Sándor ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D REPRESENTATIONS; BOVINE PANCREATIC TRYPSIN INHIBITORS; CONFORMATIONAL FOLDING; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTORS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR; INTERCHANGE REACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE SPECIE; OXIDATIVE FOLDING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COVALENT BONDS;

APROTININ; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN; DISULFIDE; OXYGEN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; THIOL DERIVATIVE; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISULFIDE BOND; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; BOVINE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; INTERNET; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BOVINAE; TULIPA;

ANIMALS; APROTININ; CATTLE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISULFIDES; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; SOMATOMEDINS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TRYPSIN INHIBITORS;

EID: 25444496168     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-19     Document Type: Article

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