Identifying foldable regions in protein sequence from the hydrophobic signal

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 578-588

  Pang, Chin I ^a   Lin, Kuang ^b   Wouters, Merridee A ^a,c   Heringa, Jaap ^d   George, Richard A ^a  

^a VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BIOSS)   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 39149093038     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1070     Document Type: Article

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