Structural and Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Agouti and Agouti-Related Proteins

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1297-1305

  Jackson, Pilgrim J ^a   Douglas, Nick R ^a   Chai, Biaoxin ^b   Binkley, Jonathan ^d   Sidow, Arend ^c,d   Barsh, Gregory S ^c   Millhauser, Glenn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CHEMBIO; EVO_ECOL; SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AGOUTI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845473498     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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