Improved identification of outer membrane beta barrel proteins using primary sequence, predicted secondary structure, and evolutionary information

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 294-303

  Mizianty, Marcin J ^a   Kurgan, Lukasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta barrel; Evolutionary information; Outer membrane proteins; Secondary structure segments; Structural genomics; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE BETA BARREL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CYTOLOGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 78649768576     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22882     Document Type: Article

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