A reduced amino acid alphabet for understanding and designing protein adaptation to mutation

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1059-1069

  Etchebest, C ^a   Benros, C ^a   Bornot, A ^a   Camproux, A C ^a   De Brevern, A G ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Amino acid classification; Local protein structure; Secondary structure; Structure sequence relationship

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 35748976251     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-007-0188-5     Document Type: Article

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