Periodic distributions of hydrophobic amino acids allows the definition of fundamental building blocks to align distantly related proteins

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 695-708

  Baussand, J ^a   Deremble, C ^b   Carbone, Alessandra ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gaps; Hydrophobic blocks; Protein homology; Remote proteins; Secondary structures; Sequence alignment; Substitution matrices

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEINS WITH HYDROPHOBIC BLOCKS ALIGNMENT METHOD; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34247252941     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21319     Document Type: Article

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