Prototypes of elementary functional loops unravel evolutionary connections between protein functions

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Goncearenco, Alexander ^a,b   Berezovsky, Igor N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA;

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEOME;

EID: 77956555559     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq374     Document Type: Article

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