LRRCE: A leucine-rich repeat cysteine capping motif unique to the chordate lineage

BMC Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Park, Hosil ^a   Huxley Jones, Julie ^a,c   Boot Handford, Ray P ^a   Bishop, Paul N ^a   Attwood, Teresa K ^b   Bella, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIGLYCAN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; CYSTEINE; DECORIN; DISULFIDE; GROWTH FACTOR; LEUCINE; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT PROTEIN AND PROTEOGLYCAN; PROTEIN; PROTEOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT PROTEINS; LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT PROTEINS; SCLEROPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BONE MINERALIZATION; CHORDATA; CHROMOSOME; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA BASE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME; HYDROPHOBICITY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORDATA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; PROTEOGLYCANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 60549110672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-599     Document Type: Article

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