Distributional gradient of amino acid repeats in plant proteins

Genome

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 900-905

  Zhang, Lida ^a   Yu, Shunwu ^a   Cao, Youfang ^a   Wang, Jiang ^a   Zuo, Kaijing ^a   Qin, Jie ^a   Tang, Kexuan ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acid repeats; Amino acid usage; Distributional gradient; Protein ubiquitination; Regulation of transcription

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CODON; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DATABASE; RICE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CODON; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 33845422549     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G06-054     Document Type: Article

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