Potential implications of availability of short amino acid sequences in proteins: An old and new approach to protein decoding and design

Biotechnology Annual Review

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 109-141

  Otaki, Joji M ^a   Gotoh, Tomonori ^b   Yamamoto, Haruhiko ^b  

^a Department of Chemistry Biology and Marine Science   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

amino acid composition; amino acid triplet; availability; nonredundant protein database; secondary structure; sequence similarity search; short constituent sequence; species specificity; structure prediction; structure function

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DESIGN; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 46149083265     PISSN: 13872656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1387-2656(08)00004-5     Document Type: Review

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