Linking enzyme sequence to function using conserved property difference locator to identify and annotate positions likely to control specific functionality

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mayer, Kimberly M ^a,b   McCorkle, Sean R ^a   Shanklin, John ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES; ENZYME ACTIVE SITES; EXTRACTING INFORMATION; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; MULTIPLE SEQUENCES; SPECIFICITY DETERMINING POSITIONS; STRAIGHT-FORWARD METHOD; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

PROTEINS;

ENZYMES;

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; OXYGENASE; DIPEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; UDP-N-ACETYLMURAMOYLALANYL-GLUTAMATE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DIPEPTIDES; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

EID: 29144504098     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-284     Document Type: Article

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