Serine/arginine-rich splicing factors belong to a class of intrinsically disordered proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 305-312

  Haynes, Chad ^a   Iakoucheva, Lilia M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ARGININE; HUMANS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SERINE;

EID: 31544433157     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj424     Document Type: Article

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