The abundance of short proteins in the mammalian proteome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-528

  Frith, Martin C ^a,b   Forrest, Alistair R ^b   Nourbakhsh, Ehsan ^b   Pang, Ken C ^b,c   Kai, Chikatoshi ^a   Kawai, Jun ^a,d   Carninci, Piero ^a,d   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^a,d   Bailey, Timothy L ^b   Grimmond, Sean M ^b  

^a RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646483032     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020052     Document Type: Article

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