When proteome meets genome: The alpha helix and the beta strand of proteins are eschewed by mRNA splice junctions and may define the minimal indivisible modules of protein architecture

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 261-273

  Barik, Sailen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha helix; Beta strand; Exon shuffling; Secondary structure; Splice junction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CELL JUNCTION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DNA STRAND; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; RAT; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4644350214     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02702608     Document Type: Article

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