Protein domains as information processing units

Current Protein and Peptide Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-145

  Lenaerts, Tom ^a,b   Schymkowitz, Joost ^a,b   Rousseau, Frederic ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Communication; Computational methods; Domains; Information theory; Protein structure; Sequence versus structure; Signal transduction; Thermodynamic coupling

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; PDZ PROTEIN; PROTEIN SH2;

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PROCESS MODEL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FYN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS;

EID: 65649103710     PISSN: 13892037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920309787847626     Document Type: Review

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