Knotted vs. Unknotted proteins: Evidence of knot-promoting loops

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3-

  Potestio, Raffaello ^a   Micheletti, Cristian ^a,b,c   Orland, Henri ^d  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS;

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; LOOP SEGMENTS; NATIVE STATE; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; PROTEIN SEGMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL DATA; THEORETICAL STUDY;

PROTEINS;

METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN TARBP 1 METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE II; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TARBP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; ISOMERISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE II; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 78049235694     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000864     Document Type: Article

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