Using dynamics-based comparisons to predict nucleic acid binding sites in proteins: An application to OB-fold domains

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1876-1883

  Zen, Andrea ^a   De Chiara, Cesira ^b   Pastore, Annalisa ^b   Micheletti, Cristian ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67650745346     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp339     Document Type: Article

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