Prediction of cell wall sorting signals in gram-positive bacteria with a hidden markov model: Application to complete genomes

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 387-401

  Litou, Zoi I ^a   Bagos, Pantelis G ^a,b   Tsirigos, Konstantinos D ^a   Liakopoulos, Theodore D ^a   Hamodrakas, Stavros J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Gram positive bacteria; Hidden Markov model; LPXTG; Sortase

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SORTASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWISS-PROT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL WALL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 44049097835     PISSN: 02197200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219720008003382     Document Type: Article

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