Structural fragment clustering reveals novel structural and functional motifs in α-helical transmembrane proteins

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Marsico, Annalisa ^a   Henschel, Andreas ^a   Winter, Christof ^a   Tuukkanen, Anne ^a   Vassilev, Boris ^a   Scheubert, Kerstin ^a   Schroeder, Michael ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MODULES; HEME-COPPER OXIDASE; ION BINDING SITES; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STRUCTURAL FRAGMENTS; TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GENES;

PROTEINS;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BINDING SITES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 77951244366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-204     Document Type: Article

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