Prediction of lipoprotein signal peptides in Gram-positive bacteria with a Hidden Markov Model

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5082-5093

  Bagos, Pantelis G ^a,b   Tsirigos, Konstantinos D ^a   Liakopoulos, Theodore D ^a   Hamodrakas, Stavros J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b School of Applied Sciences   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Hidden markov model; Lipoproteins; Prediction; Signal peptide

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LIPOPROTEINS; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 61549096272     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr800162c     Document Type: Article

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