A new method for quantifying residue conservation and its applications to the protein folding nucleus

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 351, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1031-1036

  Liu, Xinsheng ^a,b   Li, Jing ^b   Guo, Wanlin ^a   Wang, Wei ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Evolutionary conservation; Folding nucleus; Multiple sequence alignment (MSA); Physicochemical property

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 33750797530     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.10.157     Document Type: Article

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