Electrostatic and functional analysis of the seven-bladed WD β-propellers

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 203-216

  Valeyev, Najl V ^a,d   Downing, A Kristina ^a   Sondek, John ^b   Deane, Charlotte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

propeller; Electrostatics; Evolutionary trace; Protein clustering; WD protein

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ELECTRICITY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 48249088045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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