Unraveling evolutionary constraints: A heterogeneous conservation in dynamics of the titin Ig domains

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1235-1239

  Lukman, Suryani ^a   Grant, Guy H ^a   Bui, Jennifer M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary information analysis; Molecular dynamics; Principal component analysis; Titin muscle protein

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMULATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 77950370873     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.02.035     Document Type: Article

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