How much of protein sequence space has been explored by life on Earth?

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 953-956

  Dryden, David T F ^a   Thomson, Andrew R ^a   White, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency; Evolution; Protein sequence

Indexed keywords

AMINES; ORGANIC ACIDS;

(SPM) CLASSES; GENOME SIZES; LOWER LIMIT (LL); MOLECULAR LEVELS; MUTATION RATES; PROTEIN SEQUENCING; SEQUENCE SPACES;

AMINO ACIDS;

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONTINGENT VALUATION; EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 45849095719     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0085     Document Type: Article

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