Comparative genomics reveals long, evolutionarily conserved, low-complexity islands in yeast proteins

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 415-425

  Romov, Philip A ^a   Li, Fubin ^b   Lipke, Peter N ^b   Epstein, Susan L ^a   Qiu, Wei Gang ^b  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ka Ks ratio; Neutral evolution; Protein clock; Protein disorder; Saccharomyces proteome; Shannon entropy; Simple sequences

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES BAYANUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES PARADOXUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEOME; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES BAYANUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES PARADOXUS;

EID: 33748971358     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0291-0     Document Type: Article

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