Single amino acid repeats in signal peptides

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 3147-3157

  Łabaj, Paweł P ^a   Leparc, Germán G ^a   Bardet, Anaïs F ^a   Kreil, Günther ^b   Kreil, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

amino acid compositional bias; protein evolution; protein sequence analysis; signal peptides; single amino acid repeats

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEOME; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTA; HUMANS; LEUCINE; MAMMALS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954709238     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07720.x     Document Type: Article

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