Walking through protein sequence space

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 244, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-80

  Frenkel, Zakharia M ^a   Trifonov, Edward N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conserved sequence structure modules; Protein evolution; Protein sequence space; Sequence space walk

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 33750989640     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.07.027     Document Type: Article

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