VSGdb: A database for trypanosome variant surface glycoproteins, a large and diverse family of coiled coil proteins

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Marcello, Lucio ^a   Menon, Suraj ^a,b   Ward, Pauline ^a   Wilkes, Jonathan M ^a   Jones, Nicola G ^c   Carrington, Mark ^c   David, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COILED-COIL PROTEINS; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; GENOME SEQUENCING PROJECTS; HELICAL COILED-COIL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES; RECOMBINATION EVENTS; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS;

CELL MEMBRANES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EPITOPES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; PROTEINS; QUERY PROCESSING; WEBSITES;

GENES;

CONTIG; EPITOPE; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; TRYPANOSOMA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN DATABASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 34248651591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-143     Document Type: Article

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