Identification of GATC- And CCGG-recognizing Type II REases and their putative specificity-determining positions using Scan2S - A novel motif scan algorithm with optional secondary structure constraints

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 631-640

  Niv, Masha Y ^a,d   Skrabanek, Lucy ^a   Roberts, Richard J ^b   Scheraga, Harold A ^c   Weinstein, Harel ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Physicochemical properties; Protein motif; Regular expression; Restriction endonucleases; Secondary structure; Specificity determining positions

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41149161800     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21777     Document Type: Article

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