Diversity in degrees of freedom of mitochondrial transit peptides

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1773-1780

  Staiger, Christine ^a,b   Hinneburg, Alexander ^a   Klösgen, Ralf Bernd ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degrees of freedom; Fractal dimension; Mitochondria; Organelle specificity; Target organelle; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHLOROPLAST; FUNGUS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; FRACTALS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 67749122259     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp087     Document Type: Article

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