GALT Protein Database, a Bioinformatics Resource for the Management and Analysis of Structural Features of a Galactosemia-related Protein and Its Mutants

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 71-76

  d'Acierno, Antonio ^a   Facchiano, Angelo ^a   Marabotti, Anna ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

database; galactosemia; GALT enzyme; homology modeling; mutation

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GALACTOSEMIA; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERNET; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; WILD TYPE;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; GALACTOSEMIAS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; UTP-HEXOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 67649666838     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(08)60035-2     Document Type: Article

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