The "street light syndrome", or how protein taxonomy can bias experimental manipulations

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 349-357

  Markov, Gabriel ^a,b   Lecointre, Guillaume ^c   Demeneix, Barbara ^a   Laudet, Vincent ^b,d  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CELLULAR RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RELATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; WNT PROTEIN;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA BINDING; EXPERIMENTATION; GENOMICS; LIGAND BINDING; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; LIGANDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 41649088180     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20730     Document Type: Review

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